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...home in Palo Alto, Calif., working out with his Santa Clara teammates. Before leaving, Mitchell spent the toughest three weeks of his swimming career training at the IAB. The strain resulted not only from the long workouts but from practicing alone...
...District Court Judge Albert Wollenberg seems to think. Last year 14 young people, living together as two "voluntary" families, brought suit in Wollenberg's court to stop Palo Alto. Calif., authorities from "harassing" them with local zoning laws. Those laws specify that in two particular areas of the town, no home may be occupied by more than four people not in the same family. The two groups argued that since they considered themselves families, they were protected by an "emanation" of the constitutional right to freedom of association. They also claimed that distinguishing between them and more traditional families...
Given the spread of new experiments in family styles, the decision suggests that other judges may soon face some fascinating questions. Are adult commune members entitled, for example, to file joint tax returns, to military dependents' allowances and Social Security survivor benefits? In light of the Palo Alto decision, the answer is that the family that only stays together will not have a prayer in court. But there may be a way for communes to get around single-family zoning and other legal problems. One or two members of a commune might try to adopt the rest -at least...
...Grateful Dead grew up as a band in the center of a diffuse, many-sided movement that, taken as a whole, has been called the San Francisco hip scene. Jerry Garcia ("Captain Trips" or "the Guru," now 31 years old) started out in Palo Alto, California, with Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Band. In 1964, with two of the jug-band members and two others, he formed the Warlocks, a loud rock-and-roll band that soon became the Grateful Dead. They played at many of the first large rock dances in the Bay Area; they played the Acid Test...
SESPA is a national organization of about 3000 scientists and engineers with autonomous chapters in New York; Boston; Chicago; Berkeley, Calif.; Palo Alto, Calif.; and Madison, Wisc...