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Allen Ginsberg: Poet Who Swam in the Ganges — And Started Something

Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 September 1967

NEWS THAT the Beatles were flying to India for two months in October, that they were giving up drugs and taking up Indian mysticism may have startled a large number of people all over the world this week.

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