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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...J In Sweden Tage Erlander's Socialists, who have dominated Swedish politics for 25 years, returned to power with a limited mandate. The nation's 4,000,000 ballots were split evenly for and against them. Socialists gained six seats but fell short of a majority in the 231-seat lower house, will still need the help of the minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election...
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated...
...William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court LL.D...
...J "Is prayer a personal communion with a loving heavenly Father as Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural environment?" <J "What is the goal of human history? In the thunder of sound barriers breaking, the roar of rockets rushing through space . . . how shall we think of time, and timelessness, and eternity...
...report, "since most Jews are such in name only, that in a spirit of true repentance for our own mistreatment of the Jew we should take seriously our responsibility for winning them to Christ, and . . . should be prepared to surround the converted Jew with the community of Christian love." <J The subject of faith healing should be carefully studied. A special committee (six clergymen, two theologians and five medical men) noted in a preliminary report that "there is the danger in the tense emotional atmosphere of large healing missions of a concentration on the individual healer rather than...