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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. Survival seems more urgent and exciting than usual when James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and a cynical crew crawl out of a plane crash in the Sahara and try to patch up their differences long enough to jerry-build a one-engined getaway plane from the wreckage...
Watch & Wait. In private, the Administration was worried that the crawl might become a walk, then a gallop. In public, on the other hand, the White House for months has soft-pedaled talk of inflation, which by November could hurt Democratic candidates more than any other issue. Thus Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler was still maintaining last week: "My view is that we do not have inflation now." Similarly, Chairman Gardner Ackley of the President's Council of Economic Advisers pooh-poohed talk of imminent tax increases, insisting: "We want to watch the figures more closely for a while...
...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. Survival seems more urgent than usual when James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and a cynical crew crawl out of a plane crash in the Sahara and try to patch up their differences long enough to jerry-build a one-engined getaway plane from the wreckage...
...obligations." He recalled that "the 1947 Greek commitment under the Truman Doctrine was also originally unpopular. Many naive Americans and their newspapers then preferred the Communist rebels to the Athens government." And in the tone of a man delivering an urgent warning to his friends, he wrote: "If we crawl out of Viet Nam now, it is obvious that Southeast Asia right down to Australia will join our adversaries and that India will be outflanked...
...same phenomenon carries over into their descriptions of LSD highs, except that the distortions become more violent--"anything which is crumpled or quilted comes alive and starts to crawl." Along with this fixation and concentration on objects, LSD users express a greater intellectual appreciation for the "total meaning" of the object. One student explained that with LSD words break down as tools in attempts to describe the sensation. Instead of thinking about things one experiences them. He continued to explain that this was why it was difficult to translate what insight had been gained into every...