EDUCATED YOUTHS, RANGING IN AGE FROM 17 TO 25. PERHAPS THE MOST STRIKING THING ABOUT THE HIPPIE PHENOMENON, IS THE WAY IT TOUCHED THE IMAGINATION OF THE "STRAIGHT" SOCIETY. HIPPIE SLANG ENTERED COMMON USAGE AND SPICED AMERICAN HUMOR. BOUTIQUES SPRANG UP IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS TO SELL THE "PSYCHEDELIC" COLOR CLOTHES AND DESIGNS THAT RESEMBLED ART NOUVEAU. A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE HIPPIE WORLD WAS THE "RURAL COMMUNITY," WHERE NATURE-LOVING HIPPIE "TRIBESMEN" ESCAPED THE COMMERCIALISM OF THE CITIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO BUILD A SOCIETY OUTSIDE OF SOCIETY. ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT WAS THE ILLICIT USE OF DRUGS, CREATING THE SLOGAN, "TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT." "BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY" WAS ANOTHER ADVERTISING SLOGAN THAT WAS A SLY JOKE TO THE YOUNG, BUT A REAL WORRY TO THEIR PARENTS. MARIJUANA (POT, GRASS, MARY JANE, WEED) WAS THEIR FAVORITE PREPARATION. HOWEVER, SOME WERE SMOKING HASH, TAKING MESCALINE, PEYOTE, LSD, BARBITURATES AND SEDATIVES. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. AND IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. DRUG USE WAS EVERYWHERE. ROCK MUSICIANS USED DRUGS FREQUENTLY AND OPENLY. THEIR COMPOSITIONS WERE RIDDLED WITH REFERENCES TO DRUGS, FROM THE BEATLES' "I GET HIGH WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS" TO THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE'S "WHITE RABBIT." SPACE EXPLORATION AT THE END OF 1968, AMERICANS BECAME THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS TO REACH THE MOON. SEVEN MONTHS LATER, THEY WERE THE FIRST TO ACTUALLY WALK ON THE MOON. THEIR TELECAST GAVE EARTHBOUND VIEWERS AN UNFORGETTABLE VIEW OF THE MOON. ASTRONAUT LOVELL REPORTED, "THE MOON IS ESSENTIALLY GREY, NO COLOR. WE CAN SEE QUITE A BIT OF DETAIL. THE CRATERS ARE ALL ROUNDED OFF." ON CHRISTMAS EVE, THE ASTRONAUTS OF APOLLO 8 (BORMAN, LOVELL, AND ANDERS) GAVE THEIR BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE MOON IN A MOST IMPRESSIVE TELECAST. "THIS IS APOLLO 8 COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM THE MOON," REPORTED BORMAN, FOCUSING HIS CAMERA ON THE LUNAR SURFACE. "THE MOON IS A DIFFERENT THING TO EACH OF US," SAID BORMAN. "MY IMPRESSION IS ...
