Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raids, if they occur, will form another episode in Mayor Hayes' much-publicized War on Hippies, which was announced two weeks ago. "The great unwashed," said Hayes, "are creating an intolerable situation in our City by the widespread use of drugs and other anti-social practices such as boys and girls living together under the guise of 'Free Love' and without any benefit of clergy." It was the start of an energetic campaign to drive "the hippies, beatnicks and other undesirables" out of the city. Said Hayes, "These groups add nothing to the Cambridge scene other than a sense...
...variety of moral and material trappings--bare feet, beards, long hair, birth control pills ("We've found birth control pills at every raid," he thundered), pre-marital intercourse, Digger-type communes, even the sort of liberated prose of the Avatar, certain columns of which lie heavily penciled on the Mayor's desk...
Just two days after his statement, the Mayor launched the first skirmish in his War on Hippies, a televised raid at 183 Columbia Street. It is in a dusty slum area whose dirty gutters and tottering houses contrast sharply with Kinnaird Street...
Palladin strutted back and forth, resplendent in black vest, white turtleneck and shoulder-length black hair. He reads poetry in Village coffeehouses. His poetry had been confiscated. "I'm running for mayor," he announced in his nasal voice. "And at the last minute I'm going to throw my suport to Hayes and blow the voters' minds. They'll all vote against...
Earlier this week, the Mayor of Cambridge took a sip of his chocolate frappe, leaned forward in his chair and defined the enemy: "It's not the hippie, it's the hip-bo." The Mayor leaned back. The word is of his own devising, and he is proud of it. "Hip-bo comes from three things. First, hobo. Second, the combination of hippie and bum. Third, from Life Buoy soap. Remember that commercial with the foghorn blowing B-O, B-O?" To Hayes hip-bo's are the ragged tail-enders of the hippie movement, the floaters without money. "There...