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...Knauth reports, have found that many depressed people have abnormally low levels of certain brain chemicals. Whether this imbalance is a cause of depression or one of its effects remains to be determined. What is known is that it can be corrected in some cases with drugs known as MAO inhibitors, which affect brain chemistry, not the progress of the People's Revolution in China. Two weeks after he started taking MAO inhibitors, Knauth was able to function again. He took up his old editorial projects, wrote this book and became a crusader for the National Mental Health Association...
...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
Broad Strokes. The tour covered thousands of carefully supervised miles, from bustling Canton to the Yenan, where Mao and the revolution began their own comeback saga. "I found my self thinking with such broad strokes in China," writes MacLaine. This turns out to be one of the understatements of 4763, the Year of the Hare. She enthusiastically quotes official statistics, re ports having seen only happy Chinese faces, and announces the arrival of the "new man," free of competitive greed...
...afford it." Off the Wall appears to have some cash, and can get cheaper rates since they're showing on a small scale and mostly short films and some free movies. It looks from the lists as though they screen Eastern European and some radical films (a biography of Mao Tap-Tung by David Wolper ended yesterday), and their principle--especially for the children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily...
...three of China's most powerful institutions, the party, the government and the army, he is seen as the eventual successor to Premier Chou Enlai. As for Chang, many China watchers are beginning to regard him as the long-range favorite to succeed the 81-year-old Mao...