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Reporter:
Might these love happenings still include blocking traffic in the streets?

Ron Thelin:
The Haight-Ashbury community has created The Council for a Summer of Love in San Francisco. Within the Haight-Ashbury population there are many strata of imaginative and creative energies whose spirit extends throughout San Francisco and the world.

Stan McDaniels:
Our purpose is to provide an atmosphere which is more healthy than the kind of atmosphere that the city government and the newspapers have tended to put out about the influx of young people to the city. See we don't believe that the young people who are coming here are the sort of thing that are associated with vagrants. In fact, we believe in them. We believe that they're here as a matter of fact for a spiritual purpose.

Young man:
They're going to be bringing a lot of energy with them, a lot of enthusiasm and they're going to be doing creative things and providing for themselves.

Steven Levine:
The coming in is going to cause difficulty. It might cause turmoil, might cause a very real friction. But the important thing is they're going to all go back to their towns and when they do they're going to turn on everybody and this thing is going to be all over the country.