Category: Michael Fallon

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The Birth — and Death — of “the Hippies”

9 years ago
Robert Deis

Credit for the origin of the term “hippies” is generally given to San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon. Fallon coined the term in an article published in the San Francisco Examiner…