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...BEARD...
...find him, a visitor heads north from Fresno, Calif., and up into the Sierras, following a single-lane trail that winds endlessly along 9,000-ft. precipices. Finally, the traveler arrives at Florence Lake, and there is Karl, smiling nervously, waiting in rumpled cowboy clothes, wearing a three-day beard and smelling of horses. He helps you into his aluminum outboard motorboat and you putter to the other end of the lake. There you mount a horse, and three hours later, after climbing mountains and slogging through countless streams and upland bogs, you reach Karl's ranch...
...television broadcasters who have busted out with beards got mixed responses. Dave Marash of New York's WPIX, who has been sporting a full growth since September, reports that he gets regular "bearded weirdo" letters, "but most people seem quite willing to talk with me, I guess because they recognize me so quickly." When Bob Whitten of KCRA in Sacramento wore a vacation-grown beard his first day back on the tube, the vibrations were almost wholly negative. Says a station executive: "We got more telephone calls on Whitten's beard than anything since Robert Kennedy was shot...
...feet away I saw a grown man, maybe as old as my father and the other members of the Lion's Club. He was sleeping in the gutter. A little water passed under his body to the drain at his feet. He didn't so much have a beard as straight white course hairs growing all over his face and head. He was wrapped in a super-large suit coat that didn't match his tattered pants. His stomach was enormous and there were red sores on his ankles. And two kids were sitting in a doorway with a blanket...
...this hirsute era. As to whether long hair expresses something offensive to others, the court reasoned, that something is still within the First Amendment. Shagginess is not obscenity, for example. Said the court: "Freedom to wear one's hair at a certain length or to wear a beard is constitutionally protected, even though it expresses nothing but individual taste...