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Myth tells us that the god Apollo, whose instrument was the lyre, was challenged to a musical contest by a coarse satyr named Marsyas, who had learned to play the flute. Marsyas lost, and Apollo skinned him alive. In our day, this draconian triumph of reason over instinct has been reversed: Marsyas, the unrepressed goat-man, has won; the Rolling Stones are one of his incarnations. Unlike the Beatles-the very prototype of nice English working-class lads accepted everywhere, winning M.B.E.s from the Queen-the Stones from the start based their appeal partly on their reputation as delinquents. They...
...London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, and Khrushchev Remembers. He also expanded LIFE'S account of the Apollo 11 mission into a book, First on the Moon...
...occult is noticeable throughout the country. It first became apparent a few years ago in the astrology boom, which continues. But today it also extends all the way from Satanism and witchcraft to the edges of science, as in Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's experiment in extrasensory perception from aboard Apollo 14. In this area, serious researchers in the field of parapsychology are increasingly interacting with devotees of such claimed occult gifts as prophecy and telepathy to probe the powers of the human mind. Indeed, the very word occult?denoting hidden knowledge, secret arts or unexplainable phenomena?is no longer fully...
...almost every major city there is now a travel agency specializing in black tour packages. Most of them are run by experienced black travelers, such as Earl Jackson, a former New York City policeman who heads I.G.T. Travel in Queens; Louis Larkins of the Apollo Travel Agency in Chicago; Charles North of North Travel in Miami; and Alberto De Voe of De Voe Travel Service in Los Angeles. The agents not only know where blacks like to visit, but, says Hillarie Jones of Charm Travel, which has offices in Oakland and San Francisco, "we wouldn't recommend a small...
...astronauts who have already resigned have found financially rewarding careers. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, made an unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat, and is now part owner of several Ohio motels. Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter is head of an oceanographic company, while Apollo 8's Frank Borman is a vice president of Eastern Airlines. Mercury and Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper has set himself up as a management consultant. Wally Schirra, of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, when not acting as Walter Cronkite's sidekick during CBS's coverage of moon shots, runs...