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...Soul. In San Francisco's newest bohemia, the Haight-Ashbury district, Al Johnson, an unemployed musician, throws a party every Wednesday night in his basement pad. He serves coffee, invites in an embryo rock group, charges neighbors 50? to drop by-and clears $30 to $40 a week, enough to pay the musicians' carfare and, more important, his rent. In Squaw Valley, half a dozen ski bachelors are renting a cabin for the winter. To pay for it, they are giving mammoth spaghetti-dinner parties every Saturday night. Charging $1.50 to $2 a head, they hope to clear...
...Jack, the aging jalopy jockey from Lowell, Mass., swings to a beat of his own. The pad-dwelling poets are looking elsewhere for a laureate. Kerouac, 44, has let them down. He is a true pilgrim, and his objective is not the future but the past. The latest fragment of his nonstop autobiography records, of all things, a search for noble Kerouac ancestors in ancient Armorica (Brittany) just as if he were some crude millionaire of the Gilded Age shopping at Heralds College for something fancy in the way of ancestors. That Kerouac has simple faith became evident long...
...type, mortaring a number of isolated outposts and headquarters. For the second time in three weeks, guerrillas hit the Long Binh ammunition dump 13 miles north of Saigon. Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also set off a bomb in a utility shed only...
...Snorrason's design for an ideal chair for the average man lies halfway between the pew and the club chair (see diagram). It has a seat that slopes slightly downward toward the rear, and it has a back-supporting protruding pad five or six inches above the seat, in the small of the back. For most people, the front of the chair should be 17 to 18 inches high, and the seat 16 inches square. Because no one chair can be ideal for everyone, Dr. Snorrason suggested that the chair in which a man spends most of his time...
...nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...