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Chile's economy, which was highly protected under Allende, has become much less restricted and more entrepreneurial. The transformation has been largely the work of those whom Chileans call the "Chicago Boys," a handful of officials and academics led by Planning Minister Miguel Kast, 30, Finance Minister Sergio de Castro, 49, and Central Bank President Alvaro Bardon, 39. All have graduate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, the spiritual home of Free Marketeer Milton Friedman. Like most Chilean economists, the Boys were fervent opponents of Allende, and the military junta picked many of them for top jobs...
Paul Oldfield lost one down to Greg Kast on the 18th. Oldfield and Wynne had been the marginal players on the squad this season...
...sneering along with Dr. Ziporyn at the view of LSD as instant mysticism, feel that the psychedelic drugs may eventually do more than merely give the psychiatrist a better look. There is evidence that it may be effective in rehabilitating alcoholics and narcotics addicts. Several doctors, among them Eric Kast of the Chicago Medical School, have reported LSD useful in relieving both the pain and anxiety of dying patients. Kast theorizes that the dissolution of anticipation, the concentration on the present moment, which may be beneficial to the dying, is also what appeals to some of the young, for whom...
...scientific literature" impress one with how tentative and unco-ordinated research has been. They seem to keep reviewing each other. Sanford M. Unger's is the most informative; the others can be ignored. The most frightening kind of experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...
...little more than terrorists. While a college team like Harvard can win with two pitchers, in the Majors it hasn't been done since the '48 Boston Braves. Unless Cal Griffith can pull off a deal like the rumored Killebrew for Bill Monhouquette swap or Camilio Pasqual and Jim Kast learn to throw every other day and twice on Sundays, Minnesota will watch the Series...