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...quote Grace Slick as saying that she is a little worried about her pregnancy, "what with all the weird drugs we've been taking," and that the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-"God." May I suggest for a middle name-"Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...rock group Jefferson Airplane, is expecting. According to the latest issue of Rolling Stone, her husband Jerry doesn't know anything about it because he's not the father. Guitarist Paul Kantner, another Airplane, is. Grace admits that she is "a little worried, what with all the weird drugs we've been taking." Anyway, the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-God. God Slick. Due in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1970 | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

Both hope that they are headed for the movies. Julie has started and quit three acting schools ("With all these weird people and the dirty language, I am getting a headache!"). Karen is studying with Speech Coach Dorothy Sarnoff to get rid of her accent. "I'm nadda girl from The Bronx anymore," she says. While their futures promise neither the disasters nor the distinction of a Garland or Piaf, Wyman and Budd are mostly fighting the comparison with Streisand. Of course, as Julie says, "that's better than being compared with, say, Sadie Glick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Awake and Sing | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...effect upon such a bedroom community, with its $35,000 Spanish-style houses and stucco split-levels, has been a weird suburban anxiety. Twelve families living along Wright Avenue have killed 27 rattlers so far this year, and as one housewife said, "It's hardly even summer." One man found a snake coiled on the front seat of his car. The snakes slither across manicured lawns, nest in the coolness of garages and patios. Reid Waddell, a 42-year-old butcher, bent down to pick up his evening paper and saw a rattler side-winding across his driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: The Rattlesnakes of Pinole | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...second team is Process. They wear long black capes, come from London, and worship Satan. They also ask for money to further the cause, and in return they will give you some weird magazines about their beliefs. Neither of these teams matters a lot, but they play a good game of Square...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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