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                   World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 34

Arden:  Los Angeles, November 15, 1966

Arden had seen trouble brewing for months. As the crowds thronging Sunset Strip grew, sheriff’s deputies responded by hassling hippie kids for loitering, blocking traffic and smoking pot. Worried about a repeat of the terrible Watts riots a summer ago, city leaders clamped down harder with a 10 p.m. curfew intended to get underage kids off the streets and sidewalks. The cops then were bombarded with handy antiwar and prodrug slogans.

Hell no, we won’t go the kids chorused, tune in, turn on, drop out.

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World of Hurt Chapter 16 the gentile journey begins with Mormons and Rock 'n Roll

World of Hurt chapter 16-the evils of the gentile world

World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 16

May 28, 1965: The evils of the gentile world

Reasons were never given to justify any mission call, but Arden Montgomery had a pretty good idea why he was sent to Los Angeles. He figured it was because he loved the same music that had drawn so many rootless kids to the same place. LDS leadership hated that music, of course, the way they despised all the ills and evils of the gentile world. But the Twelve Apostles were shrewd enough to sense an opportunity. With his known passion for Dylan, the Beatles and the rest of that godless music, Arden seemed like the ideal missionary to convert searching young people who loved the same music to the church.

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