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...bureau's Richard Ostling when he found himself trying to interview the followers of Swami Satchidananda during one of their "silent retreats" at Yogaville East in Connecticut. Possibly the most metaphysical experience of 1973 belongs to Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who was sent through Mexico's Sonora Desert one night in search of the Yaqui medicine man Don Juan for TIME'S Carlos Castaneda cover story (March 5). At one point, she recalls, she and Photographer Eddie Adams pulled their car off a deserted road for an "atmosphere" shot of a cactus silhouetted against the desert...
...Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968). With its sequels, A Separate Reality (1971) and the current Journey to Ixtlan (1972), it has made U.S. cult figures of its author and subject ? an anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda and a mysterious old Yaqui Indian from Sonora called Juan Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young academic labored to penetrate...
Married. Melvin Belli, 64, flamboyant "King of Torts" with a knack for courtroom theatrics and attracting headlines; and Lia Triff, 23, University of Maryland coed; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Sonora, Calif...
...today's mess. So long as U.S. population and incomes keep rising, more people will be seeking a home away from home, and the demand for leisure-time projects can only increase. Not long ago, the Daily Union Democrat in the sleepy Sierra Nevada foothill town of Sonora, Calif., extended a note of sympathy: "Whenever there's an ecological lynching party, Boise Cascade comes out on the loop end of the rope...
With the aid of Rockefeller Foundation funds, Hodges and other scientists from the University of Arizona and from Mexico's University of Sonora have designed and built an integrated, diesel-electric-based system that supplies electrical power, makes sea water drinkable, and contributes to lush vegetable growth near the small (pop. 5,000), arid fishing town of Puerto Penasco. Heart of the system is a 60-kw. Caterpillar diesel generator. But unlike other diesel-powered systems, in which about two-thirds of the fuel energy is wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated...