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...psychic habits of our society are responsible for the "anthill quality of modern life," according to Leary. People who take the games they play seriously are ants, and the only way out of this psychic provincialism is an expanded consciousness. Psychedelic drugs are a sure-fire way to bust loose, to leave the old games behind and become familiar with new rules, although their use can be a profoundly disturbing experience. While he is not insensible to the moral issues raised by consciousness expansion, Leary has no use for the fear, expressed by the University Health Services, that students...
...American gift of gab. With verbacious vitality, the growing American language devoured Indian, Dutch, German, Spanish, French and Negro words. Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall...
...London into the international big time. Reports Victoria Owner George Wynberg: "This summer we had what I think was the biggest blackjack hand ever dealt in the world-$26,500. The dealer dealt himself a three, and all the Americans doubled and split their bets. None of them went bust, all pulling out between 17 and 20. The dealer dealt himself a seven and a ten; so the house won, thank...
...moved to delay payment of or renege on their outstanding debts on the parallel market, leaving thousands of investors holding $37 million in unredeemed notes. By now schooled in scandal, Brazilian investors have pulled out of the parallel market in great numbers, resumed investing heavily in stocks. The Big Bust. The biggest scandal of the parallel market involved the Brazilian subsidiary of Germany's huge Mannesmann steel company, which two months ago, to the shock of stockholders, repudiated more than $14 million worth of outstanding notes, claiming that two former directors had issued them without authorization. An gry investors...
...signing, the President drove to the Capitol, appeared in the Rotunda before an audience of 800 Congressmen, Cabinet officers, civil rights leaders and others. To his right was a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to his left a bust of the Emancipator. On national television and radio, the President recalled that the first Negro slaves in the U.S. were landed at Jamestown in 1619. "They came in darkness and chains," he said. "Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds...