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...range stay on the main trail so it is rare to meet other parties on the summit even on warm, sunny summer days. The winds at the top of Adams are usually gusting up to 50 or 60 miles an hour and winds of much greater velocity are not uncommon. Few people dare try and fewer people succeed in actually standing "on the very top of Mt. Adams," because of these winds. There are no shelters or huts above the 4000 ft. timberline on Adams. The only evidence of the frontier having been broken is the sporadic trail signs...
Erickson's successes have been described in a new and hagiographic book, Uncommon Therapy: the Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (Norton; $8.95), written by Jay Haley, his longtime colleague and admirer. Haley shows how, out of hypnosis, Erickson has drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling...
...acts of harassment and intimidation of South Koreans critical of their government by Korean CIA agents are not uncommon. Last April, for example, the South Korean consul in New York City, who is suspected of being a South Korean CIA operative, followed anti-Park demonstrators and had them photographed. In May, in San Francisco, the South Korean consul in Los Angeles attended a rally for Kim and caused a disturbance. Concern over such activities has prompted the State Department repeatedly to warn the South Korean embassy that its intelligence agents are interfering with the civil rights of Koreans living...
...Sosthenes became the undisputed master, "the Prince of Telephones" as he came to be known. At his New York headquarters, he worked in a Louis XIV salon with a portrait of Pius XI on the wall. Haute cuisine for 200 in the private dining room was not uncommon...
...heroes are the uncommon men whom he calls "the Go-Getters"-the tycoons, the inventors, the social scientists, who shaped the real character of American life. These, argues Boorstin, are the genuine "revolutionaries," and the book is studded with their biographies: Willis H. Carrier, who homogenized the country with air conditioning; Chester F. Carlson, the man who doomed the secret by inventing the Xerox system; R.G. Dun, the credit rating pioneer who made Everyman's private life the subject of public record...