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...came to pass that in America in 1970 there was a generation of young people who were in the habit of attending loosely programmed outdoor chapel meetings known here and there as love-ins, be-ins or demonstrations and punctuated, more or less, with the admonition, "Peace and love, pass it on." That was the year that Rinpoche came to these shores, taking off like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Spiritual Leader's Farewell | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...tired, sir, but you've accomplished a great deal more than any President since Mr. Lincoln, and even he didn't acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking his "tombstone teeth" and laughing like a "frenzied watchdog." These denigrations largely fall flat. In Burr, Vidal turned a villain into a hero, suggesting that another truth could be found on the dark side of legend; here the issue of Roosevelt's buffoonery hardly matters, since he is portrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Veneer of the Gilded Age EMPIRE | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Greenspan, who was President Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser from 1974 to 1977, is the first member of the TIME board to be named Federal Reserve , Board chairman. He will be remembered for his dry wit -- and one curious habit. Because of a sometimes bad back, he was occasionally prompted to stand while addressing fellow members, then to stretch out flat on his back on the meeting-room floor while others spoke. Most important, of course, Greenspan was esteemed for his sound economic judgment. "The views he shared with us were reflected in the stories we wrote about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 15, 1987 | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Legality: psilocybin must bear the label "may be habit-forming," according to the Pure Food and Drug Act. It is, however, not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Narcotics Agency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Psilocybin | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

More and more companies that have imposed restrictions on smoking are attempting to help their employees kick the habit. BMC Software, a Texas company that prohibits smoking on the job, has sent employees to antismoking hypnosis sessions. Abbott Laboratories hires smokers but strongly urges them to sign a pledge to take a company-sponsored workshop that teaches people how to stop smoking. The five sessions cost employees $30, but if they stay off cigarettes for four months, Abbott refunds the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thou Shalt Not Smoke | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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