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Illogical Extension. The Haight-Ashbury is an illogical extension of such 1950-style scenes as Los Angeles' Venice West, New York's South Village, and San Francisco's own North Beach, where the beats of the Kerouac-Ferlinghetti-Ginsberg generation gathered in delicious despair. What has been added is a vague sense of mission, drawn from the ideals of the New Left and the new lotus-eaters. Central to that new theme are "The Diggers," who run a sort of psychedelic soup kitchen providing free chow to hungry hippies...
...beautiful people." Their initial $500 investment turned into a $3,000 a week bonanza, so last October they opened a Greenwich Village branch. Both shops keep psychedelic hours (2 p.m. to 10 p.m.), sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners, "we've reached the Madison Avenue crowd." Among their best-selling items: Japanese colored balls, kaleidoscopes, avocado hand cream, Mini Marvels (stamp-size comic books) and diffraction disks-small metallic decorations to be worn on the middle of the forehead...
...essays, papers, adulatory fiction and documentary evidence, some of which are impressive, some simply a drag. Composer-Writer Paul Bowles is present with a marihuana morality tale, and so are Baudelaire and Rabelais-under one name or another marihuana has been around for thousands of years. Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg weighs in with an essay on the joys of grass, which he wrote while smoking the stuff. It is safe to report that marihuana does not noticeably affect Ginsberg's literary style: he is as opaque in this piece as he is at other times...
...novel, Norman Mailer testified that "We are richer for the record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic value and read the Supreme Judicial Court justices a poem he had composed in its praise...
...Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were used to check whether there was a man illegally living in the house. And he began a campaign to replace the humiliating income-checking procedure with...