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...know," says J.R., 25, an engineering student from the University of Massachusetts. "I missed some concerts this year." He is standing in a very chilly line outside the Civic Center auditorium in San Francisco, where in something like five hours the Dead will go onstage. J.R. is making what sportswriters call a great second effort to get serious about college, he says, his first effort having been stopped for no gain by, in part, too many Dead shows. The reward he gave himself for industrious scholarship this semester was to hitchhike across the continent, with little cash and no tickets...
Dead Heads earn gas money to rattle from concert to concert by selling each other T shirts, and this activity took place in a small park near the auditorium. No camping was allowed, but neither the Heads nor the local police considered all-night snoozing on the park's wooden benches to be camping. (Dead Heads, who are apolitical, do not seem to enrage police as hippies did.) By the time the midday sun had warmed the bones of the park-bench bivouackers, the park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral...
Later, think about that later. For now, the doors opened, the kids who were first in line sprinted across the auditorium floor, which was empty of seats, like a high school gym rigged up for a dance, and staked out standing room in front of the stage. Five hours to go. Promoter Bill Graham got a volleyball * game started. In the balcony the tapers set up their equipment (the Dead, unlike other rock groups, permit amateurs to record their shows, with the understanding that tapes may be traded but not sold). People sucked at funny cigarettes and listened with cheerful...
...quiet you could here a puck drop in Brown's Mechen Auditorium, where the Crimson sleepskated its way to a 2-1 victory before a somber gathering...
...speech to an audience of 300 in the Yenching Auditorium, Perez de Cuellar spoke of such past U.N. achievements as small-pox control, reductions in worldwide illiteracy and malnutrition, and actions to combat worldwide pollution, desertification, and overpopulation...