article_snippet.sent: That would have spoiled it. '
article_snippet.sent: I was on a Ribble bus going to school in Lancashire, peering over the shoulder of the man in front of me when I saw the headline.
article_snippet.sent: For years, I thought that was something to do with the raised earthworks — levees — that run along the banks of the Mississippi in New Orleans, until I discovered that a 'levee' can also mean a party.
article_snippet.sent: So the parties that kids would attend in the non-threatening Fifties would always have been dry — that is, without alcohol.
article_snippet.sent: Yes, same in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: The half-time air was sweet-perfume', which probably means that everybody was smoking pot, and wanting to have a nice, quiet time, when the demo was broken up violently by the Ohio National Guard, who shot four students dead.
article_snippet.sent: They caught the last train for the coast /