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Rubberneckers are now as much a part of The Hashbury scene as are hippies. At the Drogstore, where a bowl of minestrone or a hamburger costs 75?, goggle-eyed straights in suit and tie sniff the air for the musky-sweet scent of marijuana; others flock to such hippie shops as the Print Mint and the Phoenix to buy pornographic or psychedelic posters...
...bottle. Carefully the dust of two centuries was wiped clean, the hard wax seal was delicately chipped from the neck, and with surgical precision the ancient cork was drawn in one piece. Then a thimbleful of bright, golden liquid was poured into a small, tulip-shaped glass. A patrician sniff, a twirl of the glass, the first sip, and then the pronouncement: "Rather like a fine sherry. Medium dry. But a lot of tang to it, a lot of spirit showing through. Remarkable...
...Spaniards are sizzling over the fact that the cheaper non-Spanish sherries ($1.30 to $2.50 a bottle, compared with $2 to $4) have taken over half of the large and lucrative British market, which the Jerez product once had all to itself. The low-price sip, sniff the Spaniards, is far inferior. Some of it comes from vineyards in South Africa, Australia and Cyprus. Some is made in Britain from imported grape juice, which is processed and sold under such labels as "British Sherry" and "South African Sherry...
Back in Kenya, Leakey has seen hungry lions walk through camps past sleeping, defenseless men to stalk and kill nearby antelope. On the rare occasions when they do kill a man, he says, they merely sniff at his body and walk away in disgust with nary a taste. He also notes that the big cats feast on baboons but generally disdain chimpanzees, which are closer relatives of man and presumably give off their version of the manlike odor that these predators find so unattractive. "To this odor," Leakey believes, "we owe our survival. Man is not cat food...
...hippies and trippies. One of the earliest, simply called the Psychedelic Shop, opened in the psychedelic Paleozoic era: in January 1965; the latest, barely six months old, calls itself The Phoenix. Their hottest items: incense, cigarette papers and bells. The bells are to hear, naturally, and the incense to sniff. And the cigarette papers? "Well," admits bearded Owner Robert Stubbs, 26, "we have sold an awful lot of papers, and no one has asked for tobacco yet." To further aid his pot-puffing patrons, Stubbs carries a line of water pipes from India; to nourish their spirits, he has English...