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...Under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Berkeley architecture major, Christopher Yip, is recording a neglected part of Americana by sketching outhouses in northern Virginia. His pay: $132 a week plus housing in a stable...
...coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit of cooperation is matched by the leaders of the Youth International Party (YIP), the chief coordinators for the dozen or more radical groups massing for what one of their flyers calls "peaceful direct action beneath the summer sun of blue-watered Miami Beach." Yippie leaders have set up their mimeograph machines in a posh five-room suite two blocks from the Miami Beach...
...that everything is going smoothly. YIP, for example, turned down the city's offer of two demonstration sites, the first because it was too small and the second because it was in the middle of an old folks' section. "Can you imagine what would happen if there was massive tear gassing?" says Nightbyrd. "Those old people can't run, and some of them would die." Eventually, Pomerance set aside two grassy areas in front of the convention hall for demonstrations. A believer in "maximum security with minimum visibility," Pomerance arranged for the fences around the demonstration grounds...
Enter Bobby. YIP seemed doomed. New York cops broke up the yippie invasion of Grand Central Station; kids who valued their skulls began to stay away in droves. Bobby Kennedy's entry into the 1968 presidential race, followed by Lyndon Johnson's dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As Abbie notes: "Come on, Bobby said, join the mystery battle against the television machine. Participation mystique. Theater-in-the-streets. He played it to the hilt. And what was worse, Bobby had the money and power to build the stage. We had to steal ours. It was no contest." Worse...
...cops, used indiscriminately on yippies, newsmen and bystanders, even won it some measure of sympathy. Essentially, the movement remains devoted to what Hoffman calls a "free America," by which he means an America in which no body has to pay for anything. In the upcoming Nixon Administration, the YIP will doubtless find ample targets for further demonstrations-perhaps an attempt to levitate the Treasury Building. Nothing violent, though. Alone among all the anti-Establishment revolutionary forces in the U.S., YIP doesn't believe in it. "Although I admire the revolutionary art of the Black Panthers," says Abbie, "I feel...