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...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 the pure chemical (he calls it psilocybin) that induced his experimental hallucinations...
Chaperoned Breed. When freed of ticks and internal parasites, Wright's eight Xolos throve and multiplied. In cooperation with the Asociación Canofila Mexicana (Mexican Kennel Club), he set up standards for the breed. A genuine Xolo should have no hair except a slight fuzz on the top of the head and the tip of the tail. The naked skin can be any color (dark brown or grey is commonest), but large blotches of pink are undesirable. The ears should stand up straight...
...Fiesta Mexicana (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC). First performance of H. Owen Reed's folk symphony...
...comparison, the famed Black Palace is almost a felon's delight. Colonel Francisco Linares, the warden, boasts that he runs it a la Mexicana, which means nourishing food, little work, the traditional weekly "conjugal visits" to cells by prisoners' wives. But the big Black Palace (official capacity 2,000) is crammed with 4,485 convicts, and 40 new prisoners arrive each day. Occasionally Linares must hold a cuerda a las islas-a roundup for the islands...
Teresa Gonzales is the wife of a bricklayer living in Colonia Mexicana, the dirt-poor shack town of Brownsville, Texas. Now 35, Mrs. Gonzales has had four children in 13 years. The first died in infancy. The next two, both girls, were delivered by dangerous high-forceps methods. Fortnight ago, Teresa Gonzales was to be delivered of her fourth child...