Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian Givers. The Haight-Ashbury's veteran hippies are unhappy about all the attention they have been getting, about the misuse of drugs in their community, and the rise in disease rates. Many of the plastic flower people have gotten hooked on amphetamines, and these "speed freaks"-who shoot drugs with hypodermics-are passing hepatitis around on dirty needles. Venereal disease has also spread, and too many would-be hippies have allowed marijuana and LSD to become the main focus of their lives. Some of the most serious hippies, alarmed by these developments, have given up drugs altogether. Others...
American Dream. Most important, the Mission Rebels' education programs are giving kids who have had no pragmatic preparation for life a chance to savor the exploding, surreal, plastic inevitable. The Rebels have found jobs for more than 1,000 youths, sent 120 back to school. One of them, 15-year-old Garcie Geeter, recently began the ninth grade at Pacific Heights' exclusive Urban School on a $1,200 scholarship procured by the Rebels. Required reading for Garcie's social studies course, which deals with "the American Dream," is James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time...
Seat belts may be all right for adults, but try keeping a squirming five-year-old child buckled up for a long automobile ride. It cannot be done, short of resorting to chloroform. Last week the Ford Motor Co. showed off its answer: a 5-lb. padded plastic body shield called the "Tot Guard." The child sits on a molded seat; then a loosely fitting, one-piece leg-and-body "cast" is placed over him. The seat belt loops around in front to secure the entire apparatus, allowing the child to move around inside his cast but also to stay...
...market because of its severe side effects. Two others, Atromid-S and Choloxin, are now approved and so far appear to be safe, but because they work through metabolic and hormonal mechanisms, many physicians are keep ing their fingers crossed. Last week a Duke University surgeon reported that a plastic resin, which works more like a chemical sponge than a true drug, pro duces sharp reductions in blood cholesterol levels. Whether it can therefore forestall or reverse the development of heart-and-artery disease (mostly atherosclerosis), which is America's No. 1 killer, accounting for 54% of all deaths...
...understandably asks: "What is art?" Replies Samuel Adams Green, who supervised the installation of New York's outdoor sculpture show: "Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art." But even Green was taken aback when Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his spoofing soft-plastic sculptures, last week ordered a hole dug in Central Park by professional gravediggers, and then had it filled in to produce "an invisible, underground sculpture...