Letters: Jul. 14, 1967

Hep to the Hips

Sir: Once again TIME has done a commendable job in dealing with today's youth in the cover story "The Hippies" [July 7]. TIME "told it like it is" without shaking a didactic finger at the hippies.

EDWIN KAPINOS Ludlow, Mass.

Sir: Write what you will about the hippies. They are a repugnant, repulsive, nauseating, filthy, immoral, and utterly useless glob of humanity serving absolutely no purpose.

WILLIAM C. HELLER San Francisco

Sir: The hippies have not dropped out of American society; they've dropped in and have tried to make this society a...

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