Word: blissfully
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LFARNING the technique of Transcendental Meditation entails seven steps at once dubbed the "Seven Steps to Bliss." After two free introductory lectures, the actual course-which costs $45 for college students and $75 for full-time working adults-consists of an initiation and four one-hour lessons on consecutive days. The beginner learns to meditate the first day through step-by-step instruction with his teacher and immediately starts the practice of regular meditation-once in the morning and once in the late afternoon. In the next three lessons teachers check their technique and discuss their experiences at meditation...
...story was pieced together by an experienced team of four investigative reporters, and one young rewrite man who infiltrated the Chicago board of election commissioners. In charge was George Bliss, 53, veteran of many exposes and Pulitzer prizewinner. Bliss, who had done earlier stories on election fraud, got a break last spring when he learned of a vacant patronage job at the election board. Of 200 positions, only four were for Republicans, including the $20-a-day clerk's post. To fill it Bliss needed an "inside man" at the Trib, one who would not be recognized by city...
Sponsored by a Republican acquaintance of Bliss, Mullen applied for the job under his own name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first...
Then he and the Bliss crew spent another month in Chicago's working-class and slum wards, laboriously checking out names and addresses. They reported finding more than 1,000 cases of election-law violations, mostly forgery: people whose "signatures" appeared on ballot applications but who had not voted. There were also instances of phony addresses (one "residence" proved to be a police station, another the middle of a busy intersection). Some "voters" had died or moved away long before the primary. These and other irregularities were found in 22 of Chicago's 50 wards...
...happiness of Tupelo Honey. The early, post-Them rantings of "T.B. Sheets," and "He Ain't Give You None," were nothing more than the transposition of his tormented personal life into his music. He began to solve those problems with Moondance, and finally dismissed them altogether for the connubial bliss of Tupelo Honey. In light of all that, Saint Dominic's Preview doesn't portend well...