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~! —. a wees + NY 100-161445 "Now it was time to split, Abbie was on his way to a clinic for a doctor to look at his noise. He can't breathe through it, he 1s all taped up on account of his slipped disk and in constant pain, but his spirits seem as high as ever, The global revolution seems to buoy him up, he switches from serio-comic to groans like comedy asides, to hugs with Anita to proposed laws life Presidents shouldn't be allowed to wear make-up on television, As the actress Said to the bishop, we haven't seen the last of you yet." The"Village Voice" in its June 17, 1971, issue on page 21, column 1, contained an article entitled, "Steal This Story" which stated in part as follows: "A new street vendor was hawking his wares on the Sidewalks of New York last week. Abbie Hoffman was peddling ‘Steal This Book,' his latest literary effort, in front of Doubleday Books' Fifth Avenue and 57th Street branch. The Bite of the venture had significance in that Doubleday, along with 29 other publishing houses and many major book stores, refused to publish and will not sell the book. This counter counter-culture effort has been compounded by the refusal of 13 newspapers, including the New York Times, and all radio Stations to accept advertisements for it. All the parties note the book's advocacy of illegal acts in explaining their desire to have nothing to do with it. "tSteal This Book' is billed as ‘a handbook tur survival and warfare for the citizens of Woodstock Nation,' It tells how to eat for nothing at restaurants, shoplift food and clothes, hitch, bum rides on trains and airplanes, set up pirate radio and tv stations, get on unemployment, and obtain thousands of free goods and services, In addition, there are chapters on how to act at demonstrations, trash, make bombs, and shoot firearms, and what to do when busted for demonstrating, trashing, bombing, and shooting. "(There's a special section on how to make it in - New York,!' yelled Abbie to the gathering crowd at Doubleday, a cartonful of books at his feet. ‘It's called (obscene) ew York,'