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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first section ther was news of students rioting at th London School of Economics; section two told of the continuing "problems" with young radicals in Germany; the next day Brooklyn College was hit; and a week later 1000 students and faculty had taken over the main administration building at San Francisco State...
These are old ideas and projects--the philosophy of the Family Dog. The Family Dog was first a rock group, then an organization ("family," Fleming calls it) to give free rock concerts and distribute free food in San Francisco...
...berth in this week's Olympic trials-no fewer than ten competitors equaled Hary's time, and three were officially clocked at 9.9 sec. The record-breakers: Seattle's Charlie Greene, 23, Texan Jim Hines, 21, and Ronnie Ray Smith, a sophomore at California's San Jose State College. Disallowed because of a following 6.2-m.p.h. breeze (legal maximum: 4.473 m.p.h.) was a clocking of 9.8 sec. for Hines-who wound up losing to Greene in the final in the suddenly mediocre time of ten-flat...
...Draft Resister Donald C. Baty. Two Rhode Island draft evaders holed up for four days in Providence's Unitarian Church of the Mediator this month, before police moved in and arrested them. Boston's venerable Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church has twice offered similar haven, and three San Francisco churches-one Presbyterian, one Methodist and one Episcopal-have opened their doors to civil disobedients. This year's general assembly of the Unitarian-Universalist Association called on all its churches to offer war resisters "symbolic sanctuary at the time of arrest," while the Guild of St. Ives...
What most captivates the reader is the fascination of discovering how her brittle sensibilities and flamboyant neuroses react to events. Her meticulous eyewitness account of the scruffy San Francisco hippie subculture becomes all the more engrossing for the mingled feelings of anger, pain and horror that the entire experience caused her. Miss Didion suffers constantly, but compellingly and magically. With testiness, she reports on the vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia...