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...guru of therapeutic relaxation is Cardiologist Benson. Back in 1968 he was persuaded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation to study the effects of the technique on the body. To his surprise, Benson found that TM could elicit dramatic physiological changes, including decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduced oxygen consumption. Meditation, says Benson, sets off "a built-in mechanism that is the opposite of the fight-or-flight response." Practiced ten to 20 minutes once or twice daily, it has been shown, by Benson and others, to produce a lasting reduction in blood pressure and other stress-related symptoms...
...Reserve vice chairman last year. Walter Wriston, chairman of Citicorp and an outside Reagan adviser, is also mentioned, as are three former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers: Herbert Stein and Paul McCracken, who served under Richard Nixon, and Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's top guru...
...Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master bedroom holds a dresser, a few framed photos (Einstein, Jobs with his buddy Governor Jerry Brown, a guru), a mattress, an Apple II. He has forsaken vegetarianism ("Interacting with people has got to be seriously balanced against living a little healthier") and dresses with what might be called tailored informality. He is a work junkie, not a sybarite, and tends to see the simple, sensual pleasures in strictly practical...
...confusions of Carter's policy, now gets respectful attention in the papers. So does Carter, when he is talking about Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan's National Security Adviser, William Clark, as "Living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire's remark is living proof that...
...Presidency/Hugh Sidey Looking for Ideas That Work Ninety-six top thinkers, ranging from Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago, to George Gilder, the supply-side guru, worked their way through dozens of seminars, breakfast discussions and banquet speeches last week, unleashing a deluge of ideas to get America moving again...