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RICHIE HAVENS: SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN (Verve Forecast). Havens ranks with the best of the new generation of folk singers. His voice has a fine, foggy pliancy, and his arrangements complement rather than smother his equally misty messages: "The next time that we meet/ Will be a rerun...
Want a share of that swinging, spendthrift teen-age market? Start a magazine. In the first issue, smother the scene. Top off a piece on skydiving with one on motorcycling. Spend an afternoon with Warren Beatty, an evening with Timothy Leary. Run the confessions of a college dropout, along with a few essentials about "the good, grey rebel," Eugene McCarthy. Sprinkle in some pictures of electric dresses. And right in the middle of it all, plant one of those psychedelic fold-out posters. Crazy...
...Smother Them...
After an unsuccessful attempt to smother the flames with a pillow, Grainger kicked the can of fluid into the fireplace and rang the alarm. "I expected the can to explode with a sort of napalm effect," he said...
...started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as a force of some 15,000 city and state police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was almost completely paralyzed...