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...Timothy Leary was fired by Harvard for conducting experiments with undergraduates into LSD. He went on to become the pop prophet of turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. Leary was finally jailed in California on drug charges but escaped earlier this month with the aid of the Weathermen. He sent the following statement to newspapers shortly after his escape. Leary is still free...
That Hashemite caravan has been a long and winding one. The principal reason for the fanatic support that Hussein received from Bedouin warriors in Jordan is that the King can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed. Thirty-seven generations of Hashemites were traditionally Grand Sherifs, or rulers of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish...
...recent trip along the Trucial Coast, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs attempted to cross Oman's ill-defined northwest border. "I would like to let you pass," said the tall, robed Omani guard, "so you could see the country. It is little changed from the days of the Prophet. Perhaps someone will do something about it soon...
Pifer's literary fancy is a ring of courtesans organized by a shadowy group of sinners to pry cashable secrets out of the military-industrial complex. His hero is a plausible young fastmouth, Tom Habba-kuk-named somewhat pretentiously after a 7th century B.C. minor prophet -who has been recruited to shill for the vestals, as the girls are called. He turns out to be very good...
Perhaps the album's most startling moment is hearing the prophet who once sang Masters of War and The Times They Are AChangin' now croon his way like Bing Crosby into a classic from the 1930s...