OBITUARIES: SANDY LEHMANN-HAUPT, 'PRANKSTER'

Callicoon Center, N.Y. -(AP)- Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, one of the 1960s Merry
Pranksters and a principal source for the best-selling book ''The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test,'' has died at age 59.

Mr. Lehmann-Haupt died Oct. 29 of a heart attack at a hospital here near his
home, his family told The New York Times.

At age 22, he rode aboard novelist Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus, which helped
define the hippie generation.

Mr. Lehmann-Haupt, a sound engineer, met Mr. Kesey when the author visited
New York for the opening of the stage version of his book ''One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest.'' Mr. Lehmann-Haupt then moved into Mr. Kesey's home in
Palo Alto, Calif., and experimented with LSD with a group that became known
as the Merry Pranksters.

In 1964, Mr. Kesey bought a school bus and Mr. Lehmann-Haupt installed its
sound system and occasionally drove it.

The bus, painted in psychedelic colors, became a counterculture icon.

Mr. Lehmann-Haupt later described his experiences on the Merry Pranksters'
LSD-fueled bus trip across America to author Tom Wolfe, who immortalized the
journey in his 1968 book ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''

During the past decade, Mr. Lehmann-Haupt stopped using drugs, took a job as
an advocate for the mentally ill, married and bought a house.