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The Faces: The Daring Young Man And The Flying Chimpanzees

Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972

THE LAST WEEK of April, the American Retreaders Association shared the Executive Inn, Louisville, Ky., with a collection of dwarves, freaks, dope dealers, high wire acts, aerial motorcyclists, a few journalists, a mother and son balancing act, a Chinese woman who dangles from arena ceilings "suspended only by the hair of her head," and a couple of rock and roll bands.

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