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...Then, after four foodless hours, the patients are ensconced on a couch in a comfortable, carpeted room with classical music piped in. After the tasteless shot of as little as a millionth of an ounce of LSD in water, they lie down and are fitted with blinders (a "sleep shield"). To make sure that they shut out external stimuli, some also wear wax and cotton earplugs...
More willing to go along with a cultural gag as he mellows, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 70, allowed himself to be turbaned and accoutered with a ceremonial sword and shield in order to get into the spirit of a war dance performed by Bombay visitors. Peace Lover Nehru seemed to be mildly amused by the belligerent ritual, part of a celebration that drew dancing troupes from all over India for observance of Republic...
Game of Creation. Growing success has almost swamped Rudolph with commissions. With Anderson, Beckwith & Haible (also associates for the Wellesley arts center), Rudolph has designed Boston's new twelve-story Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, in which air-conditioning ducts swarm over the facades like great vines. ("Mechanical equipment eats up 35% to 40% of the budget, and this is an area architects have simply not exploited.'') On his own, Rudolph has just had his design accepted for Yale's new Art and Architecture building ("All hell breaks loose on the roof"), is hard at work...
...teacher's place to shield us from what some people might deem objectionable reading material. Instead, they should teach their students to read and to judge for themselves what was meant, allowing them to form their own intelligent ideas of what is right and wrong...
Died. Lansing P. Shield, 63, president (from 1947) of Grand Union Co., onetime $20-a-week clerk for A. & P., who joined Grand Union in 1924, waged such a vigorous campaign to move the company's antiquated stores into the supermarket field that he won the top seat, where he boosted sales from $83 million to more than $600 million; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...