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...Michigan, a researcher has studied the use of TM to help stutterers, and at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., Psychiatrist Bernard Glueck Jr. is about to investigate the technique's possible value in treating both neurotics and psychotics. "If we laugh at the hocuspocus, we may overlook something," Glueck observes. "If there's anything that might possibly help patients, I'm willing to try it." Even more surprising, the Army has permitted experiments with TM to help drug addicts and alcoholics on eight bases, and some federal prison officials think that it might...
...Americans skim over such numbers easily. An Administration with no respect for truth has lied so consistently to them that they still believe their country is fighting for the self-determination of the Vietnamese people. Nixon's defenders recite isolated incidents of terrorism by the National Liberation Front but overlook the greater terrorism of ARVN troops and the infinitely more monstrous terror of indiscriminate American bombing. Bolstering an arrogant puppet regime against an uncontainable revolution. American bomber pilots are incinerating a land, a people and a culture...
...overlook the fact that there will be people on the receiving end of such RPVs who will be engaged in the act of dying, not loving, seems to fit the truly Machiavellian if not evil mentalities of those who seek to salve the conscience of the military-and all of us-by such distortions of reality...
What ABC and its affiliates seem to overlook is that not only Cavett and Nielsen but the whole ratings system is once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...
Preoccupied with their schools, educators too often overlook the fact that children learn more outside the classroom than in. Holt urges that the imbalance be redressed by ending compulsory schooling; he suggests, among other things, employing adult guides to teach children to read, and community learning centers open to both young and old. He concludes: "The deschooled society, a society in which learning is not separated from but joined to the rest of life, is not a luxury for which we can wait for hundreds of years, but something toward which we must move and work as quickly as possible...