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...Gate Park, 10,000 hippies turned out to sing folk-rock songs, watch a psychedelic parachutist descend from a "high trip," and listen to Hindu prayers by Sometime Guru Allen Ginsberg, who has survived the transition from beat to hip. Even members of Hell's Angels, the roughknuckled, leather-jacketed motorcyclists in Nazi drag, turned up to turn on: some were seen holding lost children or gently shaking tambourines. Not a single fight marred the Be-In, and as the sun went down (to the sullen wail of Ginsberg blowing a conch shell), the forgathered hippies quietly cleared every...
Still, comedy on the Harvard stage is usually marked by preciosity or an ill-gauged lunge for "style." The Pudding show is a welcome reminder of a tradition which began with masked clowns swinging their leather genitalia and beating each other with inflated pig bladders. On opening night, harsh and unrepentant laughter filled the Pudding clubhouse. That kind of laughter is savage, purgative, and beautiful beyond all telling...
...boss says this phantom was literary which I guess excuses it all. I'm not sure she wasn't a man. She looked like a seal in all that black leather...
...price low, A.M.C. will forgo annual styling changeovers, thus saving retooling costs. But Chapin does not intend to economize all the way. Two sporty specialty cars are in the works, and this week three jazzed-up Rebel station wagons will be introduced. Main features: "simulated natural tan leather" side trim for Midwest and Southwest markets, "black camera grain" in the East, and "bleached teakwood" on the West Coast and in Florida...
Died. J. Frank Duryea, 97, co-designer with his brother Charles of the U.S.'s first gasoline-powered automobile, who in 1893 contrived a horseless carriage powered by a single-cylinder engine hooked up to the wheels by a leather belt, bucked and bumped 200 ft. down the street in Springfield, Mass., before the contraption broke; of arteriosclerosis; in Old Saybrook, Conn...