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...only sin. Mid-life divorce, recreational nudity and "Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
...full control of the Zone in the year 2000 and that shipping of all nations will be guaranteed passage through the ca nal. Progress has also been made in de fining the American role in the defense of the canal, but the two sides have not yet found the formula by which the U.S. will continue to administer the Zone for the next 23 years. The treaty, of course, would require approval by two-thirds of the Senate - something that is less than certain. Vance admitted last week: "If we had to count the [Senate] votes today, it would...
...Experience. Dukakis argues that workfare may provide the new Administration with the formula it needs to put some of President Carter's own ideas on welfare into effect. Says the Governor: "Carter is committed to a reform that distinguishes for the first time between employable and unemployable people, and only the unemployable will be eligible for welfare benefits. The employable will be offered a job."* The architect of workfare in Massachusetts is Richard Anderson, the state's assistant secretary of economic and manpower affairs. He figures the program will cost $700,000 a year but eventually will save...
...least the tired formula of A loves-loses-regains B is avoided. Here, A loves and loses B but winds up happily with C (or, I should say, with D, since the current director Bill Gile has tinkered somewhat with the original script--to little avail...
...rate the ability of an applicant who is an artist or musician. "'You measure excellence in a variety of ways, and athletics is just one," Mosley says. The committee still reviews the athlete-applicant by the same criteria it applies to other students, he says; there is no formula to weight athletic ability, and the fact that Harvard does not award athletic scholarships makes it imperative that each student be able to make it through on his or her own ability. "They're not about to fold up their tents because they're married to the Athletic Department," Mosley notes...