abstract:The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
The moretravelingcompanions you have, the more chaotic things might beat the startof the week, butcomesTuesdayandWednesday, yourmerry band ofpranksters will find its groove.
The way that Carter left the Shah of Iran to flap in the breeze and eventually to be swept out of Iran by Khomeini and his band of not-so-merry fundamentalist pranksters hardly inspired confidence in the U.S. by the petro-wealthy of the Arab world.