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...hippie cover presented problems. One involved clothes. To put her subjects at ease during interviews. Researcher Katie Kelly decided to disguise herself as a hippie wearing, in various combinations, faded old Nebraska Levi's, a red minidress and an unwashed London Fog raincoat. Surveying Galahad's Pad in the East Village for color picture possibilities, Andrea Svedberg had her arms ornamented hippie style with Day-Glo paints. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding was gauche enough to wear a suit and tie to a celebration in Golden Gate Park, and was suspected of being a "narco" (narcotics agent...
...named for a 17th century society of English agricultural altruists, the latter-day Diggers provide free food, shelter and transportation for down-and-out hippies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and the East Village (where a Digger with the nom de hip of Galahad maintains a crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names on its part-time employment roster, and Huckleberry's (homes for runaways). In Los Angeles, an outfit called Kerista, founded...
Jack and Elaine Kirschke were nothing if not adult about adultery. He liked women and she liked men, and neither was a spoilsport. There was only one house rule for their not-quite-home on vogueish Rivo Alto Canal in Naples, California: when one party had the pad, the other stayed away...
...launching pad is San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, where for the past year and a half the combo with the singular name has fashioned a freewheeling style of music that has made it the hottest new rock group in the country. The Airplane is the anointed purveyor of the San Francisco Sound, a heady mixture of blues, folk and jazz that began as the private expression of the hippie underground and only recently bubbled to the surface. Now, in such cavernous San Francisco halls as the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom, as well as in rollerskating rinks, movie theaters...
...earth, they decided, it would be necessary to launch a salvo of hydrogen bombs into the asteroid's path. To loft the warheads, the U.S. could rush to completion five Saturn 5 Apollo rockets now under construction and build four more from scratch. A second Saturn launch pad now under construction at Cape Kennedy should be completed, and a third could be built. The Atomic Energy Commission would be requested to assemble six 100-megaton H-bomb warheads, the minimum size necessary to attack Icarus effectively...