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Born. To Grace Slick, 31, acid-voiced rock singer, and Paul Kantner, 29, guitarist, both of Jefferson Airplane fame: a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: "god" (a small g). No plans for marriage: god will have no surname. Said Grace: "Art Linkletter and Al Capp will be disappointed to learn that she is very healthy, in spite of what they say about drug-crazed hippies...
...HOUSE ON JEFFERSON STREET by Horace Gregory. 276 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...President Thomas Jefferson urged "a just repartition" of federal revenues among the states for the promotion of "canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each state." The idea got nowhere then, and neither did an updated version that Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller tried to sell to President Lyndon Johnson 159 years later. But now it has resurfaced as the linchpin of President Nixon's new legislative program. Under Nixon's proposed revenue-sharing plan, the Federal Government would yield a small part of its take from individual income taxes to states, cities and counties...
...Dead stayed close to home and worked on their music. They were the source, but their style found outlets in many places. (Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test gives them their due: ". . .-the sound of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album and the high-vibrato sounds of the Jefferson Airplane, the Mothers of Invention, and many other groups-the mothers of it all were the Grateful Dead...
...presents-and the most votes in the inevitable year-end polls. In one of the more obscure surveys, U.S. newspaper editors picked the man who they thought was the most admired in history. The winner was Jesus Christ (280 votes). Runners-up: Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared...