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Sitting on the barren, marshy frontiers of Israel, the typical kibbutz for years was rarely more than a commune of spartan farmers. But as Israel's economy has surged, the kibbutzim are becoming burgeoning industrial complexes and tourist attractions. Ferryboats, their decks crowded with sightseers, stand out among the austere fishermen on the Sea of Galilee. New hotels, some with seaside restaurants, are rising where banana trees once flourished in the subtropical sun. And daily from kibbutz factories flows a stream of products that range from machine tools and stainless steel kitchen equipment to shipping containers...
...Alive and Kicking, with a few kicks at other players. On Joe Namath and his $250,000 salary demand: "Nobody's worth that much. He hasn't played for the past two years." On former Teammate Chip Oliver, who quit the pro game to join a hippie commune: "He claims he once kicked a 75-yard field goal while high on mescaline. Hell, I punted a ball 86 yards against Tennessee-at the time I was high on Polish sausage...
...tent city complete with a movie theater for kids too hopped up on amphetamines to s]eep-at the abandoned airport of Skarpnack, just south of the city. Chief Rolling Thunder, an honorary Shoshoni medicine man, chanted invocations while 50 members of the Hog Farm, a peregrinating U.S. commune, threw tobacco into a camp fire, a ritual that is supposed to ward off violence...
...haven't seen my mother for several months, but she's always welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth, Baby Leyla, six friends, an old goat and a mongrel dog named Wally...
During the meeting at the Lawyers' Commune at 698 Mass Ave, all but ten of the demonstrators voted in favor of trying to make a collective deal with the Boston police prosecutor in an effort to "get off with as few hassles as possible...