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...that it frequently increases powers of creative thinking in both artistic and scientific areas. A number of authors (Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and others) studied in the Harvard project found that their work benefited enormously from the influence of psilocybin, and preliminary investigations have indicated that the "mushroom experience" may be of value in the rehabilitation of prisoners. The directors of the Center envision the use of psilocybin in a "mushroom seminar" for graduate students in theology, behavioral science, and philosophy, the course would be based on taking the drug once a month and spending the intervening sessions...
...higher education. With enrollment expected to mushroom from 3,800,000 students now to 6,000,000 by 1970, the colleges need $12.9 billion for repairs and new facilities (excluding dormitories, which are covered by a $1.2 billion provision in the 1961 Housing Act). To ease the burden for the colleges, the Administration wants to provide $180 million a year in grants, $120 million in loans, each year for five years, adding up to $1.5 billion. This would be less than 12% of the money the colleges want, but would presumably encourage other spenders and have a multiplier effect...
...nebulous as the cigar smoke that usually surrounds him. Says a frustrated White House staffer: "He takes half an hour just to say hello.'' Once, McCormack drove Curley to distraction by refusing to say whether or not he intended to run for mayor of Boston. After mushroom clouds of doubletalk, and in his own good time-when a candidate of his own choosing had built up support to the point of no contest-McCormack laconically announced that he would remain in the House...
With Nikita Khrushchev's megatomic boasts and bombs still echoing around the globe, U.S. interest in survival techniques continues to mushroom. Items...
...Radioactive residue, carried high in the air by the rising Russian mushroom, brought the news last. As in every nuclear explosion, some of the dangerous residue fell near the test site; the rest climbed into the stratosphere and was carried around the earth by high-altitude winds. Collected by high-flying airplanes (the U.S. has many patrol planes equipped for this job), the residue was rushed to laboratories and carefully analyzed. It identified the materials used and permitted a close estimate of the efficiency of the nuclear reaction...