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Things are otherwise south of the Rio Grande. Psychotropic plants have been used ritually in South America for more than 2,000 years. The visions they induce are socially shared and, it seems, consistent with one another. That is the crucial difference. A Huichol Indian, for instance, goes to the peyote ceremony knowing that his encounter with the sacred cactus will confirm his tribal consciousness, its myths and traditional units of experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sorcerer's Apprentice | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...land of rugged individualists who tend to vote very conservatively. Much of the vote in these areas will probably go to Nixon. South Texas, however, has a large Mexican-American population. Although LaRaza Unida Party has not endorsed McGovern, the South Dakotan can still count on carrying the Rio Grande Valley counties: LaRaza does not yet control a large enough portion of the votes. "What LaRaza does is it cuts down on that enthusiasm," Farenthold said recently. "The key would be for Ted Kennedy to come down...

Author: By Harry HURT Iii, | Title: In Texas, You Can Go Democrat, Republican Or Barefoot | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

...steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang has sworn to share with the others, but as his companions scrounge for a meal-and sometimes get killed in the process-Drew keeps $100 stashed in his shoe. The bankroll makes his lofty moral principles a great deal easier to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prairie Dogs | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

BRATTLE THEATER. The Searchers, one of John Ford's finest westerns, is doubled with Howard Hawk's Rio Bravo, which some love, others hate, and I haven't seen. Ford plays at 5:30 and 9:50, and 7:30 with a weekend matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 9/28/1972 | See Source »

...bullets, he received 90. His companion, a U.S. Army deserter who was only interested in buying a pound of pot, was found alongside the Tennessean with 60 bullets in his body. In another grisly episode, an independent dealer was found in a clump of bushes near the Rio Grande. He had been decapitated with a machete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Narcotics War of Nuevo Laredo | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

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