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Leary calls himself a Hindu, and he uses Eastern symbolism along with psychedelic experience to reject the outward-looking, "goal-directed" American attitude (disciples like to quote him to the effect that "Buddha was a dropout"). Leary is overfond of using the word "game" to put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not that he would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the games recognized for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems...
...Administration viewed the bill as a pragmatic token of encouragement to the increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
...replace Ambassador Edwin Reischauer in Japan before fall-Mrs. Johnson has already measured the Tokyo embassy windows for curtains-so that Reischauer can return to Harvard, which has offered him a newly created chair in Far Eastern politics. David Bell, head of the Agency for International Development, is also outward bound, most likely will join Bundy at the Ford Foundation after the current foreign-aid bill has been convoyed through Congress...
...Even the outward forms of British tradition got bent again last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan took the Labor government's annual budget to the House of Commons. Instead of the shabby red leather case, passed along from one Chancellor to another for decades, he carried in a new and ominously black one. From it he produced the most unexpected tax plans since Sir William Harcourt introduced death duties...
...many outward signs, the trading-stamp business was never better. Stamp distributions in supermarkets, service stations and other retail outlets last year surpassed $1 billion; the Trading Stamp Institute, which represents most of the important companies in a field of 200 and speaks for all, predicts that business will increase this year...