FREIGHT TRAINS You’re on. You’re moving. So now you read (if you can in a moving car), watch the countryside, wave at children, talk to any companions you may have, drink wine, write books, and groove train riding activities.
FE Author: anon.
Getting Used To It
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Following is part one in a series of articles subtitled “a guide to bumming in the U.S.A.” The author is unknown, and we wouldn’t have found out about it if it weren’t for the keen eye of …
Life in the County
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
Editors’ Note: The author of this article is currently doing time in a federal prison in West Virginia on a conviction of possession of two grams of marijuana. Prior to his transfer, he spent close to a month in Wayne …
Docs for Dope
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
The New Physician, a national medical journal with a monthly circulation of over 60,000 physicians and medical students, has become the first major national medical journal to speak out in favor of the legalization of marijuana. An editorial in the …
“If I Had a Gun…”
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Special to the Fifth Estate GREAT FALLS, Montana—A local boy has made good out in the wooly West. Mickey Gordon, formerly of Detroit, was charged in Montana Federal District Court with threatening the life of President Nixon. Gordon is a …
Who Said This?
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are full of students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. “Yes, danger from …
Fight Back
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
A preliminary statewide planning meeting of a group formed to combat the special state Senate Investigating Committee looking into campus problems will be held March 15. The Michigan Coalition for Political Freedom will meet at St. Joseph’s Church that Saturday …
David and Roselyn Benefit
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
The Monteith Student Board will present a concert featuring David & Roselyn Wednesday and Thursday evenings, March 12 and 13 in WSU’s Upper DeRoy Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Canned Heat-ed
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 74, March 5-19, 1969
The Canned Heat came to Detroit to do a gig at the Masonic Temple and got busted by the real heat. Canned Heat’s drummer Adolph De Laparra was charged with being a disorderly person and the group’s equipment manager Ron …
Bombers Bound Over
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Recorder’s Court Judge Thomas Poindexter has bound over for trial seven of the nine persons accused of conspiring to bomb police stations, draft boards, and the Ann Arbor CIA office last Fall. Poindexter has apparently already decided that the accused …