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...familiar with the sight of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops; even shots of North Vietnamese militiamen in Hanoi are hardly a novelty. Only the Viet Cong have remained largely invisible. But that defect will be remedied next month when CBS runs a film made by French Freelancer Roger Pic, 47. Already broadcast in France, the 25-minute documentary gives a glimpse of Viet Cong life at a clandestine camp operating under the shadow of U.S. military might only 60 miles from Saigon...
Modern medicine has a battery of devices that greatly reduce the dangers of heart attacks - provided they are used in time. The electrocardiograph gives the physician a continuous moving pic ture of how the damaged heart is behaving. A simple oxygen system will do the patient's breathing for him. If his heart stops, electric paddles restart...
Since she wants to bring psychedelics out into the open, Miss Bieberman encourages people to come to the PIC and ask questions. She tries to give them advice on how to "run sessions" and how to hold onto their experiences "up there" when they "come back down." She refers them to a book by Leary, Metzner, and Alpert called The Psychedelic Experience. "They come from all over," she said, "and they tell me about their experiences, and they're worried--did they do it right? Did they get far enough? And I tell them it's all the same...
Most of the people who go to see Miss Bieberman at PIC, however, just want to take drugs for kicks. "They consider themselves irresponsible, self-defeating, naughty," she says. "They take drugs too often, and without planning and forethought. So the insights they gain when they're 'up there' are quickly dissipated. They don't stay together after their sessions to discuss their experiences. These people may have unpleasant experiences when they take psychedelics in the wrong environment, going into it with the wrong attitude. It all depends on the attitude you go into it with...
...recent visitor to PIC told Miss Bierberman that he had not taken LSD in a month, and she replied to him take she had not taken it in four months. "But that's because you like it down here," he replied...