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...Freedom delegation" seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention. The Viet Nam war, however, led to a change of tactics. By 1966, S.D.S. had broken with the L.I.D. and decided against working within the existing political framework. Since then, the group has been trying to be what National Secretary Michael Spiegel, 21, a onetime Harvard student, calls "an independent radical force...
S.D.S. national office, run by a triumvirate consisting of Spiegel and two other national secretaries, Penn State Graduate Carl Davidson, 24, and University of Texas Graduate Robert Pardun, 26. Headquarters is a pair of drab rooms above the Chicken House restaurant on Chicago's sleazy West Madison Street. No two chapters are alike. At Harvard, the 200-member S.D.S. is a thriving, cohesive force. At Ohio's Oberlin College, where no national officer has paid a visit in more than two years, the local chapter is a dispirited band of 35 students. The group has all but melded...
...film and videotape, psychiatric sessions with murder defendants under the influence of hypnotism and so-called "truth drugs" are being shown in U.S. courtrooms (TIME, Dec. 29, April 12). Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston, New York's Dr. Herbert Spiegel warned that such evidence is dubious indeed...
...specialist in hypnosis as well as a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychiatrist Spiegel tested the cliches by choosing a volunteer who was "a normal, healthy neurotic like anyone else." While NBC-TV filmed the experiment for possible use in a documentary, Dr. Spiegel easily and quickly put his subject into a deep hypnotic trance. Next he told the man that he had important information about a major Communist plot to take over the television networks and radio stations. Dr. Spiegel provided no other information; he implied, however, that the subject could provide...
Eventually, Dr. Spiegel put the volunteer into another trance and asked him what the real truth was. He stuck by the story. Then McGee upped the pressure by saying that he had witnesses who would swear that the subject had been in another city on the weekend he was supposed to have been told about the plot. "That's an absolute lie!" he shouted with conviction. "That's the action of Harris and his group. That man is a demon...