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...Ph.D. is in public policy--Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986 to help scientists get funding and approval to study the drugs. (Doblin, 53, says he was too shy for the '60s, but he was inspired by the work of psychologist Stanislav Grof, who authored a 1975 book about promising LSD research--research that ended with antidrug crackdowns.) Doblin has painstakingly worked with intensely skeptical federal authorities to win necessary permissions. MAPS helped launch all four of the current Ecstasy studies, a process that took two decades. It's the antithesis of Leary's approach...
Anyone who sentimentalizes childhood is, of course, an idiot. Childhood is an ordeal and a journey--dangerous, magical, sometimes humiliating and, since you are at the mercy of adults, fairly weird. Little Andris Grof's childhood was somewhat more...
...Andris Grof survived Eichmann and more--including the Soviet occupation of Hungary (out of the Nazi frying pan, into the communist fire) and the abortive Hungarian revolution of 1956. That fall of '56, with thousands of his compatriots, Grof sneaked across the Austrian border in the middle of the night and then sailed to America. In New York City, he Americanized his name to Andrew S. Grove--Andy Grove. This immigrant's story has a gaudily triumphant sequel. In the fullness of the American dream, Grove became one of the founders of Intel (he's now chairman of the company...
Born in 1936 in Hungary as Andras Grof, Grove and his family, who were Jewish, survived World War II by assuming a fake name and hiding in Budapest with a Christian family. When his country was invaded again by the Soviet tanks, Grof changed his name again to Andrew Grove and fled to come to America to pursue his dreams of finding an education and a career...
...virtual unknown to most people, this man is a clear symbol of success for every refugee who comes to the U.S. with a sincere desire to succeed through ingenuity and hard work. I admire his quick assimilation into American society by changing his name from the Hungarian Andras Grof to Andrew Grove, learning the language and contributing so much to our country and the world's technology. JAY M. CASTANO Washington...