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...grape ivy is truly effective it would be the second time rock'n'roll will have contributed to consciousness expansion. Donovan's "electrical banana" prefigured that craze and a group called The Innocents have revived the hit of the 1940's Mairzy Doats, with the chorus: Mairzy doats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you? Perhaps this is why lambs look so sweet...
Once, successful Civil War memento collectors needed only a vague knowledge of where skirmishes had been fought and a sharp eye for rusty buckles, buttons and musket balls that lay for the taking in the battlefield grass. No more. Since the centennial battlere-enactment craze in the early '60s, the search for souvenirs has come to re quire 1) the battlefield instincts of a field commander, 2) a shovel, 3) a strong back, 4) a talent for telling lies with a straight face, 5) an ability to fend off enraged farmers, 6) a snakebite kit and, most important...
Also aboard were a barrel of beer and plenty of bottles of assorted other spirits. "If I have a craze for anything -sorry if this sounds bad-it's generally drink," confesses Chichester. "I know pretty well at the outset whether it's going to be a rum voyage, a gin voyage or a Mackeson [beer] voyage...
...thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque and for trying on the newest fads, from pressed-straight blond hair and granny glasses to surfers' crosses, military coats and giant gilt earrings...
Night Riders. How to explain the craze? One old hand, Major G. N. Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...