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Three Crises. Gordon Walker's defeat left Labor with only a three-vote majority in the Commons. That meant Wilson had little hope of carrying through the package of welfare legislation he had promised in his October "manifesto." The slightest number of absentees, caused by flu or a heavy London fog, could bring about the defeat of any bill or a vote of no confidence. And while a loss on a minor bill could be shrugged off, a no-confidence vote on a major measure could force an immediate general election on terms of advantage only to Tories...
Leary in his manifesto makes philosophical assumptions which are neither self-evident nor even consistent. In various places he speaks of the goal of psychedelic therapy as "the freedom from helplessness...the religious experience...the love experience...expansion of consciousness, freedom of the brain from the mind ...survival and peace of mind." Leary explains that the LSD experience frees men from the egotistic frustration of cultural "games". "Anger and anxiety are irrelevant because you see your small game in the context of the great evolutionary game which no one can win and no one can lose...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...
...manifesto urged "absolute presidential control over the use of nuclear weapons," the strengthening of "existing agreements" on nuclear weapons, more negotiations in world trouble spots, trust in the U.N., and "multilateral disarmament...
German history funnels through a succession of rooms, depicting capitalist exploitation, proletarian sufferings and unrest, and the active work of various revolutionary groups, to the Marxzimmer where der grosste Sohndes Deutsches Volkes ("the greatest child of the German people"), sculpted in bronze, faces a first edition of the Communist Manifesto on red velvet at the other end of the room...