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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Rubin emerged from jail looking like a plucked chicken, his Yippie colleague Abbie Hoffman sent out the word from Chicago, where both are defendants in the conspiracy trial: "Help Jerry make a wig." Before long, whole bags of hair tumbled in from across the country; at least a dozen bundles arrive daily now. With all of that, Rubin could doubtless fashion a fascinating brindle mop. Instead, he has bought himself a ghastly bouffant woman's wig to wear until his own hair returns to suitably radical length. Surely, going to the barricades in drag is going to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hair | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...sure to be 79? on check day." Samuel Meyer, 86, a wheelchair-bound resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, finds food prices up so sharply that he can no longer make his $70-a-month welfare benefits pay for a nightly soup of chicken wings and vegetables. He now makes his soup from vegetables only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How Inflation Helps--and Hurts--the Poor | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...large group of freaks huddled together for warmth. We joined them. A couple of people in our group returned from a trip to the VW with bread, cheese, and grass. Soon joints and all sorts of food-chicken, mints, cheese, peanut butter-were being passed through the crowd. We sang with Pete Seeger, we jumped for Richie Havens, we laughed at Tim Leary. A fat man frowned and a young girl took pictures while we rolled joints; everybody else smiled. Then they announced Earl Scruggs. We jumped up and began a round

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: On the Far Side of the Monument | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

...Meir dominated the brief campaign. Her party unfurled huge color posters of the Prime Minister. Reported TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin from Jerusalem: "They had the imperative about them of the command, 'Chicken soup is good for you-so eat.' " At 71, Mrs. Meir outcampaigned younger members of her party and charmed voters with her plain talk. "Even when there is peace," she told audiences, "I will always hold one thing against Nasser. He made killers out of our boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Voting Under Fire | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Frontierro Calls Quick Chicken...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Colburn Leads Field Harriers Top Area Competition In Sixth Straight GBC Victory | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

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