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...Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, established last May, will focus its investigations on traffic in "pep pills" and barbiturates, and on manufacture of LSD in college laboratories...
...June. A pilot group was organized at Tsinghua University's middle school in Peking. The organizer and initial commander of the Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms and red arm bands. At a prearranged signal, several hundred Guards rushed in front...
Fittingly, Lin Piao's anointment as heir apparent to aging (72) Chairman Mao came at a vast pep rally for the cultural revolution. Foreign diplomats and journalists were not permitted to attend, but they could watch on television as 1,000,000 demonstrators carrying Red banners and pictures of Mao marched past Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. There, in the words of the official news agency, stood Lin, "shoulder to shoulder" with Mao, smiling and waving to the crowd...
...with his staff of six (he gave himself veto power over everything the rest of the staff does, but promised never to use it, "Or else what's the sense of having a staff?") is not out to get the Advocate, only to improve it. "The Advocate needs a pep pill -- that's us. The time is ripe. If Scorpion comes across, the Advocate can no longer rely on its name...
...awake to the marketing possibilities of the tapes. In December, RCA Victor will introduce "minimum concentration" language courses, plans later to bring out quiz games and storytelling tapes to pacify children on long trips. Doctors use the tapes to keep up with the medical news, traveling salesmen to hear pep talks from company executives. Editor William Buckley listens to Shakespeare's plays when driving to work; Jerry Lewis listens to scripts en route to the studio. Hundreds of players have been installed in powerboats and airplanes, as well as in funeral limousines, which broadcast hymns at the grave site...