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...your fingers do the walking and these days they stumble at almost every step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...
...U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within 24 hours. Hare Rama Bidis are an Indian import made from an Asian tobacco that contains up to ten times as much nicotine as the tobacco used in U.S. cigarettes...
...Unification Church is only one of dozens of religious cults that are drawing young Americans these days. Other notable ones are Hare Krishna, the Children of God, Brother Julius, Love Israel and the Divine Light Mission. But Moon's penchant for publicity and totalitarian trappings attracts the most attention and stirs the strongest emotions -not only in the U.S., where he claims 30,000 followers, but in South Korea, where he claims 300,000 and in Japan 200,000. His small following in Europe has grown rapidly in the past few years. There are 1,000 in France...
White Money. The two most frequently cited causes for the decline of the black press are economics and the brain drain. "The black press today must mostly depend on white advertising," says Psychologist Nathan Hare, former publisher of the militant intellectual magazine Black Scholar. "But it is very difficult to make money and be a voice for black revolution." A National Urban League study of the black press reports that "in 1974 black media received less than 1% of the $13.6 billion in advertising agency billings." With the recent recession hitting their thinly capitalized black advertisers especially hard, even...
...chartered bus last week chugged along a Nebraska road, a jack rabbit darted out from the underbrush and ran by its side. For a while the race was close, but the bus finally gained on the hare and outdistanced him. Inside the bus, Presidential Candidate Frank Church chuckled over the good omen: "The tortoise is doing it again...