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They are a widely varied crowd, according to these useful, firsthand accounts of the commune movement. Some of the members are rather younger at heart than in years, like Moishe, an energetic 60-year-old participant in a group-marriage experiment outside San Francisco. Some of the new communalists were disillusioned radical antiwar protesters. Others were drug culturists seeking freedom from legal hassles, or flower children trying to recapture the euphoria of San Francisco's brief "summer of love." Still others were intellectual Utopians out to build non-nuclear families along the lines of B.F. Skinner's Walden...
...years ago and converted into a floating concert hall. The idea has been with him ever since he graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School in 1952 and found that there were just not enough jobs available for brass and woodwind players. Being a trumpeter, he understood the problem firsthand. To get his orchestra started, Boudreau walked the streets knocking on doors, until H.J. Heinz II, head of H.J. Heinz Co., gave him $15,000 and Duquesne University matched it. Ever since, he has been floating his barge up, down and around the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, drawing...
...sightseers also got a firsthand look at another part of hallowed Harvard-the traffic in the Square. The ever-informative Phil launched into a lengthy oration about the jam we got tied up in. "Now this traffic is unusually heavy," he began. "It has been heavy from time to time, but more so today than usual. You'll find that this is a bad time to go through Harvard Square. . . ." But we finally got going again, and Phil directed our attention to "Holyoke Student Center." We learned about Harvard Square, particularly its various shops, and then, since it needed...
Last week Mrs. Werner returned-luggage uneaten-from her own month-long safari in Asia. Eager for a firsthand look at field operations, she had toured Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo...
...discover firsthand what it must feel like to be Dick Cavett, TIME arranged a turnabout show before an audience that had gathered to watch one of his regular programs. This time Cavett himself was the sole guest. His host was Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, who has since become insufferably stagestruck. His report...