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Abbott H. Hoffman — Part 40
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roup (no meetings,
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has Moved hore temporardy fiom New Yori
guts for tae figarr chiidrett eapected Aug.
Déinocratic Convenuun. +
“} don’t know, Chicuge’s more uptight than New York, |
but we'll make out. Somebody gave us 100 pounds of soy-.
beans today, he says triumphantly. ‘Now we're working
on recipes.”
Like your more orthodox experts, Hoffman has written a
book about his specialty, But you can't buy iteit's a give-
avnv--and if you ask for it by name in some places, you
mucht pet arresied for disorderly conduct. (It's called “F—_
Tuo Systems.” withoul the dashes.)
“) was going fo call ip ‘Free New York," but you gotta’
edu ‘Fs. Tne System’ has a more McLuhanesque {m-
pici’ says Abhic the author, a Shirley Tempte-coiffed,
Erandeis and Berkeley product who is either 29, 30, or 3,
beaming on when you ask,
THE J6PAGE BOOKLET tps off the penniless ca free:
ool at cy whoiesale markets and supermarket backyards
Cc" you want te he really professional, dress as a priest
and go over ard ask"); bus rides (“get on with a large
denomination bili just as the bus is leaving}: bread, edible
and spendable (“Uptown puys with dates are the best touch,
especialy of they are just leaving some guilt movie like
‘Guess Who's conung To Dinner’) and such other Iife-
sustuiners as free buffalo.
Chi uides ta beep die hepa wl @ controteble level," éb-
PC Ce COP real, live Iniftairy
Hoven Gan guateciee shipping expenses and adequate praz-
wyeoatea., Write tn the Office of Information, Department of
the Interior, Wasiuiaton, B.C.
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Abloe cays pier Suly at bis) Massachuselts-flattencd voice.
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