Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a dozen homosexuals showed up for a scheduled mass love-in at a park in downtown Manhattan. There was not a policeman in sight to give a care. The once notorious Paul Krassner, a founder of the Youth International Party, sadly watched a crowd of 250 of his Yippies getting stoned in Central Park as a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana. Cops looked on with detached amusement. "People don't care if you smoke," groused Krassner. "It's become irrelevant...
...build the party, drawing a few smirks with his pronunciation of "Eye-talians," but he scored in attacking the Ford Administration. "We have been governed by veto too long," he said. "We have suffered enough at the hands of a tired and worn-out Administration without new ideas, without youth or vitality, without vision, and without the confidence of the American people." After "a time of torment," he argued, "it is now a time for healing. It is time for the people to run the Government and not the other way around." Next year, Carter predicted, "we are going...
Trying to convert his concerns into legislation, Mondale has established an impressive record in the Senate. Now chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth, Mondale sponsored a comprehensive child development program in 1971, which would have provided $2.1 billion for health care, nutritional aid and educational assistance for preschool children. The bill containing his plan was vetoed by Richard Nixon...
Jimmy Roosevelt, the youth who helped his crippled father to the inaugural stand in the dark days of 1933, was an aging, unrecognized figure one morning last week, searching for the entrance to Madison Square Garden, surprised when someone greeted him in the crowd. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. wonder boy, was reported by the newspapers to be in New York as the escort of the convention's chairwoman, Lindy Boggs. And somebody looked around the room at a party given by Arthur Schlesinger, Roosevelt historian, Stevenson partisan and Kennedy aide, and remarked, "Ah, we have here...
...away with a rifle from the roof of their building, a young Beiruti inquired what was going on. "I'm a sniper," the old man said proudly. "They give me $25 for each person I kill. I've already made $100 this morning." "But, uncle," pressed the youth, "how do they know you're telling the truth about the number you've bagged?" The old man bristled: "Am I not a man of integrity...