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...seasons later we bused our way out to IFIF's digs in upstate New York. Maybe the stars were wrong. Or it could have been the way we came barging up to the Millbrook mansion on a sleepy Sunday morn in a gaudy vehicle belching green and orange smoke while Neal Cassady's voice blared from the rooftop speakers. Dr. Leary was upstairs, we were informed, sleeping one off. We left before he woke...
...statement issued late last night Alpert failed to comment on the Corporation's actions or its reasons. He said that since he was "no longer affiliated with Harvard" he and Leary "plan to devote our total efforts to IFIF." The statement indicated Alpert planned to give the drugs to "any serious individual" who desired to "expand his consciousness...
...October 1962, Leary announced the formation of the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), a private organization to administer and investigate consciousness-expanding drugs. One month later, Dean Monro and Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, became alarmed at growing undergraduate interest in drugs and the increasing circulation of illegally obtained drugs. They issued a statement warning undergraduates that these compounds "may result in serious hazard to the mental health and stability even of apparently normal persons...
Alpert and Leary next appeared in the news in February 1963, when their "communal home" in Newton involved them in zoning litigation. In March, the two psychologists started an extensive recruiting campaign for IFIF. In the literature they mailed to many persons in Cambridge, they said they had separated their researches amicably from the University...
...small group, the students who trailed after him were disappointed. The stripped down contact he had promised them in the forum, turned out to be a conventionally intellectualized Harvard discussion of history and personalities, communism and anarchy. To the student's dismay; Goodman was unenthusiastic about drugs; he called IFIF "an unpersuasive blend of Zen and Madison Avenue...