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...Street East last week was itching for action. "Ole!" they shouted. "Ole! Ole!" Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull. It was ole all the way. Grinning and joking like a bunch of frat brothers at a stag party, Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his side-burned sidemen served up a dozen tamale-flavored numbers that had the audience rocking in their seats. It is the middle-aged man's answer to rock 'n' roll, and it is called Ameriachi...
Ameriachi was born not in Old Mexico but in the recording studios of Hollywood. Alpert is of Jewish descent, his sidemen of Italian and Russian. Their Ameriachi is one part cool jazz, one part hot mariachi, with a dash of rock 'n' roll. Twin trumpets carry the melody, and trombone, drums, piano and two electric guitars add a heavy bass line and a chugging beat...
Leary's visit to Cambridge last week was his first in two and one half years. Since then, he and his colleague Richard Alpert, who was dismissed from the Faculty at the same time, have carried on their research partly in Mexico, and partly in a small town in upstate New York. Though Leary Holds no grudge against Harvard ("wonderful place, extraordinarily sincere and thoughtful administration") he feels that universities must change to meet the fourth contemporary revolution--consciousness expansion--as they changed to meet the scientific revolution 300 years ago. The new task of the university will be largely...
...more than 150 students and hangers-on wedged themselves together in a small upstairs room, Leary spoke of new non-drug techniques for transcending "the
...Corporation fired Richard Alpert, Leary's partner in drug research, at the same time it relieved him--on the grounds that Alpert had violated an agreement not to give consciousness-expanding drugs to undergraduates...