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...those years of study but the nature of the revelation he offers that has run Castaneda afoul of rationalists. To join another man's consensus of reality, one's own must go, and since nobody can easily abandon his own accustomed description it must be forcibly broken up. The historical precedents, even in the West, are abundant. Ever since the ecstatic mystery religions of Greece, our culture has been continually challenged by the wish to escape its own dominant properties: the linear, the categorical, the fixed...
Some Administration stars are on the wane. Closest to fading is Peter Peterson, the highly influential Secretary of Commerce who negotiated trade agreements with Russia and Poland. Peterson ran afoul of the protective White House staff for precisely the reasons that others admired him: he was dynamic and freewheeling, and was in the process of building up an independent reputation out of key with the team consciousness in the White House. As an international-minded free trader, Peterson also clashed with John Connally, who speaks for economic nationalism. And in the last analysis, it is Connally, the skilled infighter...
...Hang-Up. Macom has run afoul of the telephone companies. American Telephone & Telegraph has long contended that no devices can be attached to phones unless A T & T approves and uses its own servicemen to connect them. Usually this involves not only an installation fee but also monthly payments to the local telephone company for use of a "foreign" attachment on its equipment. The phone companies contend that unapproved devices could foul up switching systems, leading to overlapping conversations and perhaps even injuring repairmen...
Most of the new men owe their eminence to Nixon, by and large; they lack powerful constituencies to fall back on if they happen to run afoul of the President. The most important of the jobs goes to Boston Brahmin Elliot Richardson, who moved from HEW to Secretary of Defense, a post that will fully test his vaunted administrative skills. A combination of shrewdness and steadfastness under fire is expected to pull him through. He sees eye to eye with Henry Kissinger and is not likely to offer any rebuffs on foreign policy. While he lacks the clubby relations with...
...Paris arranges between ten and 25 repatriations a year. Other cases are referred to the American Aid Society, an organization run by U.S. and French businessmen. In Japan, the Columbia Society of Yokohama lends Americans a helping hand with small loans and emergency cash. When visitors run afoul of local laws and regulations, embassy legal staffs are required to respond. But as an American resident in Tokyo puts it: "They don't break any track records going to the rescue...