In November, 1967, Juris was reading about the October march on the Pentagon that would become famous in Mailer’s “Armies of the Night.” Among other things, how strange to think that only a few years later he would be crossing paths with Mailer and Ginsberg. “We’re just now getting magazines with accounts of that march on the Pentagon. Pretty impressive really but—hawks, doves—I’m afraid they are all for the birds as far as the kids over here are concerned.
“Good people these youngsters. Corny but true though I’d smash any patriotic stateside soul in the mouth who said it. Haven’t got much use for hawks, doves, or the Army.
“The only thing that really interested everyone was that group that wanted to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet off the ground. Everybody got a kick out of that one, especially the judge permitting them to raise it only ten feet and no more. Beautiful. I hope my boys don’t ever become similarly inclined. They’d do it. Three hundred feet and then some. The best demolition squad in the highlands. They call them the Humpty Dumptys—for obvious reasons.”