From the archive, 17 September 1966: The peaceful revolution of the Dutch Provos in white jeans

Anti-apartheid, anti-the Bomb, anti-Vietnam, anti-Communist, anti-capitalist. Above all, anti-workHe's Dutch, unmarried, on holiday and under twenty-five. You can't tell all this from looking at him, of course. All you'll see is an unlikely compromise between Bob Dylan at his scruffiest and an untarnished, postulant nun. His gear is usual enough: sandals, jeans, curling, long-forgotten hair. But his jacket is plastic, not leather. The reason for this is simple: with a real Provo everything has t...

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