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Back in London, Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, discoverer, and cagey promoter par excellence, struggled out of a sickbed and enplaned for Manhattan "to assess the situation." The Beatles, after all, were due to begin a 14-city U.S. tour in Chicago this weekend. Epstein has had to deal with the Beatles' foxy chitchat before. "Show business," they once said, "belongs to the Jews; it's part of the Jewish religion." In New York, Epstein coolly declared that Lennon himself was getting a little religion. "John," he announced at a press conference, "is deeply concerned, and regrets...
...TIME'S review of books about Custer [July 22] recalls the description written by Psychiatrist Karl Menninger when he was asked in 1947 to assess Custer's personality for a medical journal...
...closest equivalent to infinity in sheer living"). There have also been stories of "bad trips"-writhing nightmares that end in the nearest psychiatric ward. Occasionally LSD is a one-way trip. Since the recent flood of sensational publicity about LSD has let up somewhat, it is possible to assess the phenomenon more calmly. LSD is certainly not the means of instant, universal bliss that its most extreme and most ludicrous proponents make it out to be. Nor is it an indication of diabolical decadence or proof that, as Critic Leslie Fiedler predicted some time ago, the U.S. is changing from...
Journalists who assess the Truman presidency tend to be emphatic and categorical. This new attempt, by a veteran Washington correspondent for the New York Times, is dedicated to the proposition that Harry Truman was one of the great Presidents, an exclusive company which Phillips otherwise limits to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. But that is only Phillips' proposition. He does not prove it; in fact, for all his desperate trying, Phillips does not convince even himself...
...evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause to effect is at best diffi cult to assess...