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...meet Adams' requirement, and in February it was made official. But for one reason or another, the campaign didn't really get underway until mid-June, when more than a dozen workers moved into headquarters on Washington St. and began to concentrate on gathering 10,000 valid signatures needed to put Adams on the primary ballot...
...will. Under the widely different state formulas devised for such cases, a widow can lose one-half of her husband's estate to his relatives. Equally alarming to newly affluent Americans is the high cost of dying with a will. For good reasons, a will must be proved valid (probated) in state courts known variously as probate, surrogate, orphans or chancery. Unfortunately, many such courts' archaic methods can tie up an estate for years, devour 20% or more of its value in legal fees-and force the dead to subsidize politicians...
...Having taken LSD [June 17], I conclude that the distinction between its valid use for therapeutic purposes and its quasi-perversion for "spiritual" purposes is important. As Avatar Meher Baba, an Eastern master of consciousness, said, "The experiences that drugs induce are as far removed from reality as is a mirage from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for truth through drugs must end in disillusionment...
...cases have been removed from local Southern courts to the presumably fairer federal benches. Nonetheless, said Justice Potter Stewart for the majority, until Congress changes the situation, "no federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens-on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody else"-to disobey valid local ordinances...
...Another valid definition of a hero is "a person regarded as a model." In The Natural, Novelist Bernard Malamud has one character explain: "Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas...