Word: weil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEGAN TO ASSUME a new importance in society in the early Sixties, when they suddenly became the property of the respectable middle class. At Harvard, two denizens of William James Hall, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, were using the "mind-expanding" drug pscilocybin in experiments on students. Andrew L. Weil '64, now Andrew E. Weil M.D., was The Crimson's drug expert at the time even though he was also a Poonie--and did the bright, relentless, comprehensible reporting which led to the eventual banning of the experiments and termination of Leary and Alpert...
...Eagle keeps a close and critical eye on the local General Electric plant, employer of two-thirds of Pittsfield's work force. Last winter, Richard K. Weil, the Eagle's industry and labor reporter, was barred from a GE press conference in New York after he reported the destruction by GE officials of a company-published-and pessimistic-business forecast...
Salaries are modest ($216 a week for reporters with seven years or more experience), but staffers enjoy considerable freedom. Some who had planned to use the Eagle as a steppingstone decided to remain. Recalls Weil: "I walked in and got a summer job eleven years ago and I'm still here...
Threepenny Opera. Music by Friedrich Weil, libretto by Bertoldt Brecht and production by Leverett House. It should be a winning combination. "Mack the Knife" is Richard Nixon's favorite song...
...RICKY WEIL...