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nf » around the commune nude or bare- breasted, catering to his every whim. One chagrined ranchhand relates dis- cussing business with Manson while one of Manson's girls performed a sex act upon the “guru.” But women in the “family” saw him in a different light. “He gave off a lot of magic,” said one, Lynn Fromme. “To me, to us, he was ev- erything,” added another, Sandy Good Pugh. A fellow ex-convict from the Mc- Neil Island penitentiary in Washington State said that Manson was a strangely passive person who would sulk if at- tacked rather than strike back. He tried with considerable success to get others to do his bidding: “He had a certain smile that would always get to people. He tried to hypnotize them. He always got other people to supply him with the necessities.” A man who knew Manson at the Spahn Ranch said that Manson had lured Mrs. Kasabian away from her hus- band, got her to steal $5,000 from him and other men at the ranch. When the men caught Manson, “he showed us his big buck knife, with about a twelve- inch blade, and he asked us if we wouid like to kill him, just to prove he couldn't die.” Manson, said the ranchman, read deeply in Oriental theology, and be- lieved in reincarnation and the insig- nificance of individual lives. Manson, who is white, “felt the Establishment was the white man, and his karma was to catch up with everybody and shoot all the pigs he saw for, like, enslaving the Negro. It wasn’t wrong to kill the pigs, to slash them down with a knife, be- cause they were destroying the earth.” Manson, according to this acquaintance, hoped that his killings would touch off racial war in the U.S. After the car- nage was completed, he and his fol- lowers would take over the ruins of the U.S.—or at least of Los Angeles. Star Student. Bizarre as such no- tions are, Manson’s behavior, given his background, is at least less inconsistent than that of his followers. Charles Wat- son attended Methodist Sunday school in tiny Copeville, Texas, and grew to be a big, handsome star-student and ath- lete, voted outstanding member of his ju- nior class. Yet when he went away to college in 1964, his grades fell and he Hippies and Violence ART of the mystique and the at- traction of the hippie movement has always been its invitation to freedom. It beckons young people out of the tense, structured workaday world to a> life where each can do “his own thing.” The movement has flowered and spread across the U.S. and to many parts of the world. It has drawn all sorts of peo- ple: the rebellious, the lonely, the poets, the disaffected, and worse. Some two years ago, says Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, a close student of the phenomenon, crim- inals and psychotics began infiltrating the scene. They were readily accepted, as anyone can be who is willing to let his hair grow and don a few beads: they found, just as do runaway teen- agers, that it is a good world in which they can disappear from law and so- ciety. “Hippiedom became a magnet for severely emotionally disturbed peo- ple,” Yablonsky says. A few of them, like Manson, also found other advantages to being a hip- pie. The true gentle foik were rela- tively defenseless. Leaderiess, they re- sponded readily to strong leaders. But how could children who had dropped out for the sake of kindness and shar- ing, love and beauty, be enjoined to kill? Yablonsky thinks that the answer may lie in the fact that so many hip- pies are actually “lonely, alienated peo- ple.” He says: “They have had so few love models that even when they act as if they love, they can be totally devoid of true compassion. That is the reason why they can kill so matter-of-factly.” Yablonsky believes that there has been far more violence among the hippies than most people realize. “There has al- ways been a potential for murder,” he says. “Many hippies are socially almost dead inside. Some require massive emo- tions to feel anything at all. They need bi- zarre, intensive acts to feel alive—sex- ual acts, acts of violence, nudity. every kind of Dionysian thrill.” * Charles Manson unintentionally put some clues into his particular psycho- logical makeup on a piece of paper last week, as he sat in court for arraign- ment on car-theft charges. The insights came in the form of doodles on a Jegal pad-—~disoriented scribblings that suggest to two experts a psyche torn asunder by powerful thrusts of aggression. guilt and hostility. According to Dr. Emanuel F. Hammer, a psychoanalyst who stud- ied the doodles without knowing who drew them. they point to “an inner ten- sion that is jampacked with jarring el- ements. The drawings hit you like chaos on the part of the mind that drew them.“ He notes the phrase “Howmuch- canonegive,” and says such stringing to- gether of words “shows a lack of re- spect for the integrity of things” and people. The starlike figures, covered over or enclosed in circles, represent “guilt or attempts at control over ag- gression.” The drawings of armless be- ings “are goonish and ludicrous, which may show a demeaning and devalued view of people.” Dr. Harry O. Teltscher, a psychologist and handwriting expert who knew the doodles were Manson’s, finds cosmic im- plications in the sketches. “This whole drawing looks like part of the universe. ARCO DBI RAR 5 OI Ne si TIME, DECEMBER 12, 1969 he ntact cm en gave up athletics. He dropped out of school, was arrested for stealing type- writers from his old high school. He headed west, enrolled in another col- lege, and dropped out again. When he re- turned from California a few months ago, he was bearded and emaciated. Says his lawyer and old family friend Bill Boyd: “He’s a totally different guy. He acts completely detached and un- concerned. I seriously question his men- tal state.” Miss Krenwinkel was a shy and chub- by adolescent growing up in a respect- able section of Los Angeles. A friend recalled her as “a quiet and very sen- sitive girl who kept all her feelings to her- self. She didn’t like to see anybody get hurt. | remember once we were talking about one of the guys we know who en- joyed killing cats. She broke into tears.” Her parents separated when she was in high school. In 1967, after meeting Man- son, she rejected the “straight” world so suddenly that she left her car in a parking lot, quit her job without pick- ing up her paycheck and went away with him. Now she, with others like her, is charged with murder. Ofttimes, paranoid-schizophrenics iden- tify themselves with cosmic situations.” In the squiggles, Teltscher also sees “a tremendous amount of repressed anger and hostility against all mankind.” If Manson is guilty of commanding the Tate murders, as police suspect. then, “telling these girls to act out these kill- ings was his way to express his anger.” AMS EA LILES BELO ENOL EEE NEE NEN AEE ELEN ERE AES IEE TSN 25