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Thus last week in the mecca of mindlessness did the hippies proclaim their own demise. It was probably inevitable. Their every antic reported at length in the national and local press, their ranks swollen with thousands of "plastic" or part-time hippies, their language and life-style copied by "straight" society, the hippies of San Francisco have come to feel that hip is no longer a fun trip. As fall weather set in, the bloom went out of flower power, and last week's "Death of Hip" funeral was an attempt to purify the movement...
Florida currently has an influx of skilled Cuban refugee doctors who once made Havana an abortion mecca and are now doing the same for Miami, where some 30 abortion mills last year paid off assorted officials and took in an estimated $20 million. But all too many U.S. abortionists are dangerous defrocked doctors-alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual perverts-or worse, bungling amateurs who don't hesitate to finish a sloppy job by tossing clients off tenement roofs or dismembering those who die. Equally sobering are the slum women who cannot afford even amateurs and do it themselves with hatpins...
...band. But in 1960, he was suddenly picked out of the band by Talent Scout Ralph Rinzler, packed off in a station wagon loaded with musicians and instruments, and trundled around the country. In 1962 he was rushed in as replacement at Los Angeles' prestigious folk singers' mecca, Ash Grove, and has been moving up ever since...
...Holy Land" [Aug. 4], you survey the religious significance of Jerusalem to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. You might have mentioned that Jews the world over have been praying for and toward Jerusalem for 2,000 years, thrice daily; Moslems face five times daily toward their holiest site-Mecca. For Christians, Nazareth and Bethlehem have been destinations of pilgrims. For the Jew the world over, only Jerusalem remains as the sole center of his religion...
...outburst of bourgeois baroque-extravagant in form, larger than life, gaudy, ridiculous, but above all productive and resolutely confident. No man better personified this outburst than Explorer Richard Burton,* the magnifico of satanic mien who prowled through unmapped regions like a lion, visited the forbidden cities of Mecca, Medina and Harrar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika...