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Scarcely more salubrious are the "crash pads"-communal sleeping quarters rented by older hippies, who run them as free hotels. They are largely responsible for an alarming increase in venereal disease-up 1,000% in West Hollywood in the past five years. As an alternative to the crash pads, San Francisco's church-financed Huckleberry's for Runaways provides "fugitives" with food and shelter while setting up channels through which they can re-establish relationships with their parents. Operating out of a Victorian house at 1 Broderick Street in the Haight-Ashbury district, Huckleberry's has handled...
...long been standard practice to require women to wear bathing caps at communal swimming pools. Reason: stray long hairs tend to clog the filters. But what about the teen-age boys now sporting long tresses that cover their ears, if not their eyes? One firm that manages 100 pools in the Washington area has decided that the only fair and logical thing to do is to apply the rule without regard to sex, is now insisting that a boy with hair like a girl must wear a bathing cap like a girl...
...Pearce, General Managing Director of Willys-Overland do Brazil, began to notice the spectacular successes some local dealers were having with consorcios, wondered if the scheme might not be worth trying on a nationwide basis. Last month the company kicked off a consorcio campaign expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair for gambling, something that is both safe and lucky...
...more than any class which preceded it for half a century, will be scattered to the four winds in the fulfillment of that work which it stands ready to do." Ironically, that class which had felt the effects of President Lowell's attempts to weld undergraduates into a communal body was all over the world at the time when they were to have been completely together...
...back door, shrilled: "But where do I take it?" Many took it to their front sidewalks, but since sanitation-department drivers-good unionists all-refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West Siders demonstrated their disgust by instituting communal "toss-outs," and the heaps of cans, bottles and more malodorous detritus on the streets made much of the city look more like Marrakesh than Manhattan. Atop a garbage heap near Park Avenue stood a sour sign: "Fun City...