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...Born in Laredo, Mann spoke border Spanish-"Tex-Mex"-almost as soon as he spoke English and acquired a lifelong fondness for the neighboring Mexicans and the Latin temperament. All but two years of his State Department service were spent in Latin America or on Latin American affairs. He was ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk...
...combat medic. Along the way, at Fort Sam Houston, he says, "I started writing songs because I had a terrible time playing anybody else's music." His first audiences were the boys in the barracks and the girls in the bordellos below the border in Nuevo Laredo. "The Army doesn't like me to talk about that," he says, "but what the hell, I'm no angel. I'm a soldier, just a plain old dumb sergeant...
...just plain playing around with the more potent LSD that is fast becoming a major problem not only among oddball cultists and kick-seeking college students, but among high school and prep school students as well (TIME, March 11). Last week, in the U.S.-Mexico border town of Laredo, Texas, Leary finally got his comeuppance...
...road to Laredo has been lined with weird detours. After leaving Harvard, Leary tried to continue his experiments near Acapulco, Mexico, where he opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four...
Leary, whose work with hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, marijuana and psilocybin has received wide publicity, last week by a federal court jury in Laredo, Texas and found guilty of transporting and failing to pay tax on half an ounce of marijuana...