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Show Quick Exodus 1VeaFA Flower In My Hair?! By KAY ISRAEL As the plane pulled up onto the runway and began to roll towards the concourse I thumbed through my briefcase and found the artificial arti-ficial flower that I had saved for just this purpose. Placing it above my ear I attracted nothing more than questioning looks from the stewardesses and heard one whisper whis-per to the other, "get a look at the nut in seat 21-A." Reconsidering my move I put the flower back into my brief case and adjusted my tie. The stewardesses stew-ardesses looked relieved and I began be-gan to slowly walk out of the airplane air-plane and into the air and fog normally called San Francisco. San Francisco is quite the place. Haight-Ashbury, Grant Street and Golden Gate Park are a full-scale extention of the Huddle. Hippies populate these areas with a density den-sity equaled in Salt Lake but once when Allan Ginsburg was on campus. Walking around the park one could go from cluster to cluster listening on one end of the grass to a group of six playing tom-tom drums, what had to be African Rock, on the other end a group of seven were playing coffee cof-fee house jazz. In the middle of the knoll there were a number with guitars and banjoes playing what sounded like "Foggy Mountain Moun-tain Breakdown!" Ttrntalitv Elsewhere in the state a jazz festival was interupted by "the pill woman" passing out pills to anyone in the audience. The local chief of police expressed wonderment wonder-ment as to why people could be so anxious to take unmarked pills. About 10 of the crowd were taken to the hospital due to lung failures. The pills had done what they were : intended to do but nobody taking them knew just what that was. Loving Attention t Hashbury had bumper to bump- ' er traffic. The streets were lined c with tourists wanting to find s something a little more exciting r than Chna Town and feeling that they were risking their lives in wnat cppmed to be a worth Mayor Allioto, San Francisco's answer to John Lindsay, came through the park to see if there were any truth to the rumors about the "guests" in the park. In order to show concern the mayor came up to each group and asked if they had any problems. Answers came back almost immediately. "I was walking through the park at night with my boy friend when a policeman came up and shined his flashlight right into our faces. That is the kind of brutality we have in this world," said one of the better dressed flower children. "The park is closed at night," the mayor replied. "Still, that's no kind of excuse for the kind of brutality," the girl snapped back. Obscene Meeting Berkeley wasn't much too different. diff-erent. I arrived there just in time for the graduation commencement exercises for those seniors who planned to refuse to be drafted. Eight-hundred and sixty males who were planning on getting their diplomas this June participated. partici-pated. They got full coverage. The press was all over and to put a spotlight on the whole incident, Governor Reagan ordered the school president to refuse the students stu-dents the right to meet. Following Follow-ing the exercises the governor was quoted as calling the ceremonies as verging on obscenity. The newscasters played it up to the hilt. cause. The hippies there loved the . attention. On every corner and fi between them there wasafoJ fl child of some type trying11 c, the "Berkeley Barb" or the W a guide for Haight-Ashbury. it One could only imagine the. , ti of these poor impoverished j casts as they counted their M it each evening-somewhat the 0 as that of Scrooge or Midas Mre J the reformation. j ol Better Than Another; 1 J All of the "straights"; I is talked to kept on wait 4 to give some or discomfort, but I rf p( give it to them. The "W San Francisco can maKe readily of the zoo not t ,0 k from Hashbury. m watch the animals ana hippies. Without each itn 'that there is always son er than you wouldn t k dj sible, especially witt ' ?;ip'n m pearance of the old e Fetchit. Surprising (0 animals and the hippe " ,y love it. After all wha tje to make a living than to things you always t0 ft providing there is an watch it. fraii- !he On the way out J anj be Cisco I opened rny took out -y a te . placed it on one o ei-the ei-the airport. Perhaps t , had better use for i |