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Among the retirees is Peggy Polinsky, 34, who can trace her bona fides back to longtime residence in Haight-Ashbury, when that was the world capital of hippiedom. Now a mother of two and the wife of an actor who works in soap operas, she has brought her brood, because "city kids don't get a chance to play in the dirt much. Besides, I used to go to a lot of these things." But rock concerts today are not the same as their 1960s antecedents, she insists, surveying with disgust the already growing carpet of empty beer cans...
Bearded, blue-jeaned and barrel-chested, Alexander pursues his work with a zeal worthy of the Grand Inquisitor. Like his two assistants, he was involved in the hippie movement, then found Jesus and set up a mission in the Haight-Ashbury wilderness. "We told the protesters that they were fundamentally right in their critique of society but that their answers were inadequate." He was accused of being a fascist, or a pawn...
...Haight said the introduction of coin books bearing the defendants' finger prints should have been declared inadmissable as evidence...
...Barry Haight, the defense attorney, said yesterday the defense will appeal the case to the Massachusetts Appeals Court sometime in the near future on the grounds that certain crucial rulings from the bench were incorrect...
...Haight said that an exchange of a lesser sentence for the recovery of the missing coins was impossible because "such a deal would assume the defendants know where the coins are, but they are innocent...