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LIppies coming’ Sy Jreeway i all the way! By Lyng Langway | ' Ablue ihXinan is a panhandling pro who probably could. (reelsad’ his way through a loan shark convention, . trots and Chicago, roup (no meetings, “pnalona) Party. ° Sheecansader myese- fam urban plinner,”’ savy Hoffman, who * has Moved here temporary from New York\to find hand- | outs for tiv fiuwer chtidren eapected Aug. &*30 for the Diinocraue Convenuen. >! “EL don’t know, Chicago'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 it—it’s a give- awnv-—and if you ask for it by name in some places, you munhr get arrested for diserderly conduct. (It's called “F— Tuc Systens.” withoul the dashes.) But he ‘s Sua Ws Stull with the Der a> one e! the eu cs of a sary of non} rates, officers or eX retaries), the Youth RD “) was going to call ip ‘Free New York,’ but you gotta: dnt *F--- The System? has a more McLuhanesque {m- pisi’ says Atluc the author, a Shirley Temple-coiffed, Hrandeis attd Berkelvy product who is either 29, 30, or 31, Geornding on when you ask, THE 36PAGE BOOKLET «ps off the penniless to free: ol al cy wholesale markets and supermarket backyards ("lf you want to he really pro‘essional, dress as a priest and g0 over ard ask); bus rdes (“get on with a large denomination bili just as the bis is leaving): bread, edible und spendable (“Uptown guys with dates are the best touch, esprocsaily of they are just leaving some guilt movie like ‘Guess Who's conung To Dinner,’") and such other hfe sustauiners as free buffalo. “ha anetea ta brep the herds of a controllable level,” dh ter ocayt) Me pose ra cent will give vert a reel, (es tniffaty Woven Gan piateeice shipping expences und adequate praz- wy area. Write te the Office of Information, Department of the Interior, Wasiutston, D.C. . Toke, (ese peor pays hove gotien about 200 letters,” Ablue says pice fly a dis Mussa husetts-flattencd voice. “Toes ident lel mee you were suppased to bean iastdue Hier cot a peta, dy get a buffalo, but Unat’s typical of (he sysigin.” wee