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Thus last week in the mecca of mindlessness did the hippies proclaim their own demise. It was probably inevitable. Their every antic reported at length in the national and local press, their ranks swollen with thousands of "plastic" or part-time hippies, their language and life-style copied by "straight" society, the hippies of San Francisco have come to feel that hip is no longer a fun trip. As fall weather set in, the bloom went out of flower power, and last week's "Death of Hip" funeral was an attempt to purify the movement...
Indian Givers. The Haight-Ashbury's veteran hippies are unhappy about all the attention they have been getting, about the misuse of drugs in their community, and the rise in disease rates. Many of the plastic flower people have gotten hooked on amphetamines, and these "speed freaks"-who shoot drugs with hypodermics-are passing hepatitis around on dirty needles. Venereal disease has also spread, and too many would-be hippies have allowed marijuana and LSD to become the main focus of their lives. Some of the most serious hippies, alarmed by these developments, have given up drugs altogether. Others...
...army has put a stop to open fighting in Canton's streets, but the struggle continues in the city's outskirts. Gunfire can be heard constantly; occasionally it is punctuated by the sound of artillery. I also heard several loud explosions that sounded like plastic bomb blasts. Army troops, in their drab, formless, olive-green uniforms with red collars and red stars on their caps, are everywhere. Every hour or so, trucks come tearing down the streets, klaxons blaring, full of soldiers with weapons ready to deal with some disturbance...
...Bothered. The junta is feeling increasing opposition both at home and abroad-and in places it is beginning to hurt. Athens rocked with three separate explosions of plastic bombs in one evening. The largest group of Greek nationals abroad-155,000 workers and students in West Germany-are so anti-junta that they have applied an economic squeeze by refusing to send home their paychecks. From the safety of Denmark, Prince Peter, the cousin of King Constantine, recently called for the overthrow of the military government. The Council of Europe last week condemned the junta for its disregard of human...
...goddess-like. In part, their arresting effect comes from his daring use of materials. Guilty Eve of the Garden is a collage built round the photograph of a Vogue model's face; Virgin: A Consolation uses almost nothing but the backs of old canvases; Female Mosaic uses plastic-lace doilies as stencils. Even more surprising are such conceptions as She and Me, in which Stüssy's bearded face is superimposed on a nude figure, with Stüssy's glasses substituting for breasts...