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...Haight culture devolved after 1967, the Summer of Love that, among other things, witnessed the birth of the Class of 1989. With teen exploitation flicks and Madison Avenue cashing in on the hippie fad, with even a Gray Line tour through the Haight-Ashbury, the movement exploded beyond the bounds of its neighborhood, destroying itself in its own grasp with success yet somehow managing to spread an influence far beyond the San Francisco Bay. The greatest hippie event of all took place two years and 3000 miles away from the Haight's height, at Woodstock, and alternative thought echoed through...
There's a new campus fad that's got students at Brown University climbing the walls--literally...
...section, called Health & Fitness, with an evaluation of how well Americans shape up, along with the latest news about nutrients. Says Managing Editor Ray Cave: "A major change in modern life has been the increasing understanding of the benefits of fitness and preventive medicine. It is not a fad or craze. It is not a jog, it is here for the long...
Some high-price, high-quality American shoes have carved out foreign markets. In Italy, Timberland shoes (retail price in Rome: $100 a pair) are such a fad that young thugs have taken to attacking people and stripping them of the American-made footwear. Yet the Timberland factory in Newmarket, N.H., failed to meet its production target last year because it could not pay its workers high enough wages...
...they were in good or excellent shape. Those who try to take up working out often fail. If they do not have the start-and-stop fidgets, many exercisers have the fitness flitters, endlessly switching from one activity to another. "If people begin to exercise because it's a fad or start up with something that is not convenient, they just won't stick with it," notes Dr. Joan Ullyot, a San Francisco specialist in sports medicine...