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...Rosalynn to Camp David for the week end; parts of his remarks were drowned out by the roar of the rotors. He urged the businessmen to support the Panama Canal treaty. Commented Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, who would have hoped for more forthright pronouncements on energy: 'Tm all for the treaty." White House encounter sessions may be important in establishing communication between the Administration and business. Some corporate chiefs say that relations have improved lately because Carter and his Cabinet are beginning to listen to them. William Hewitt, the chairman of Deere & Co. (farm equipment), reflected...
...Brainard's description of the pain is an understatement. Few things helped until I skeptically began the practice of Transcendental Meditation. I have not only not had a single migraine headache, but cannot recall a headache of any kind in the five years since I began TM...
...have produced more levity than levitation-so much so, in fact, that the Maharishi's movement could be laughed out of existence. But the 450 "executive governors" who teach the Siddhis remain undaunted and seem grimly determined to spread the new (and expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker who has started the new course...
What reporters want most is a clear view of a soaring meditator. Indeed, the press does have a picture-from a TM brochure-but some cynics think the levitator may in fact have been bouncing, not flying. For a while, TM's executive governors offered to arrange live demonstrations for the cynics if ten observers would pay a total of $ 1,000 for the privilege. When those conditions were accepted in at least two cities, Toronto and Montreal, headquarters sent word that demonstrations are forbidden because they are undignified. Says John Konhaus, who represents the Maharishi's team...
Phase I-ranging from four weeks for advanced meditators to eight weeks for beginners-costs $245 a week, including room and board. Phase II, which took its first American trainees last month, consists of four two-week packages and costs $3,000. TM has revealed few details about the flying lessons, but it does offer a suggestion or two: it may be less distracting to fly with someone of your own sex, and it is best to fly only over a mattress because landings are usually bumpy...