Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane, with champagne corks popping all the way. The destination can be anywhere - Acapulco, Moscow, Marrakesh. Last week it was Nassau, and for today's féte galante it was no moody grotto but the brand-new $55 million Paradise Island Hotel. Still, a touch of magic was called for, and the wand that summoned all the Beautiful People to court was held as usual by Serge Obolensky, 77, former prince and Imperial Russian Guards officer, international playboy, World War II OSS paratrooper, and currently the world's most aristocratic purveyor of public relations...
Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...also plenty of plain, garden-variety superstition in the hippie faith witnessed by their interest in ouija boards, numerology, tarot cards, palmistry, mind reading and astrology. Some communities are very keen on nature worship, and hold outdoor ceremonies honoring the onset of the winter and summer solstices. Black magic is very In among some hippies, as is Devil worship; there are even a few witches and warlocks around Hashbury ready to celebrate Black Masses in praise of Satan...
...today's youngsters, who have watched manned space ships blast off on TV and may never even have ridden in a train, the tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
Died. Cora Baird, 55, puppeteer; of cancer; in Manhattan. With her husband Bil, she created a magic world of dancing figures and impish characters, and for 30 years their Baird puppets, starring Hedda Louella McBrood and Edward R. Bow-Wow, entertained countless children in films, on TV and in shows from India to the White House...