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...Crimson was swamped yesterday morning with calls from newspapers and wire services trying to confirm the story. The Associated Press and many local radio stations carried stories announcing Kissinger's return in their morning reports...
Both AP and UPI were skeptical and called back. Beach and Powers posed as Yale staffers confirmed the report and told the wire version that Yale President Kingman Brewater had told them to have anyone at anytime call him to confirm the report...
...sustain his marriage, hated his exwife, and was said to be awkward and uncomfortable around women. The man who was subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief that skyjackers are emotionally disturbed. In his experience, they are not strong, masculine supermen but weak, longtime losers, men who have failed at life and love. They tend to be passive, effeminate, latently homosexual, and afraid of their eldest sisters and mothers...
Wacker was unavailable to confirm this last night...
...used ritually in South America for more than 2,000 years. The visions they induce are socially shared and, it seems, consistent with one another. That is the crucial difference. A Huichol Indian, for instance, goes to the peyote ceremony knowing that his encounter with the sacred cactus will confirm his tribal consciousness, its myths and traditional units of experience...