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Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hippies: Dream Farm | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...grifter (George C. Scott) is shoved from a moving freight car. A young drifter (Michael Sarrazin) dusts him off and helps him to his feet. The two quickly discover that they have some things in common-cunning and duplicity. The grifter is the Flim Flam Man, a wheezy, sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conned Goods | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...swinger's suit for Continental beaches this summer is the new "shiner," which is slicker and shorter than ever and made of glossy "power stretch" and other synthetic fabrics that need no supports, cling to every curve and dimple like a coat of suntan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Brief, Briefer, Briefest | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...different wave length from Miss Picker's Burnering, which may have been my fault, or hers, or in all probability neither. But Harvard is a place where playwrights don't have to cater to anyone's taste, and a slicker place...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Burnering | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...Easter Sunday "bein" in Central Park was a raggle-taggle mob brandishing a giant 3-ft.-long mock banana and chanting "Banana! Banana! Ba-nan-a!" as they snake-danced through the bemused multitude, cheered on by girls wearing banana crowns, while one student, dressed in a yellow slicker, tried to pass himself off as the biggest banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Tripping on Banana Peels | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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