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...medicine men. It is the very nature of the physician's work, that of healing and life-saving, that has made him the subject of the reverence of his patients and potential clientele. We hold in awe his abilities to preserve life at what appears to be virtual whim. He is the subject of our respect and our fear. For that which we fear most--death--we regard as in his capacity to control...
...like most men who have explored mystical separate realities and returned, he seems to have reentry problems. According to the books, Don Juan taught him to abandon regular hours ? for work or play ? and even in his apartment in Los Angeles he apparently eats and sleeps as whim occurs, or slips off to the desert. But he often works at his writing as many as 18 hours a day. He has great skill at avoiding the public. No one can be sure where he will be at any given time of day, or year. "Carlos will call...
...convinced that he was actually Henry IV. In order to humor him, his relatives have totally recreated Henry's courts, with servants in medieval dress, oil lamps instead of electric lights, visiting abbots and monks--the works. For twenty years "Henry" orders everybody around, demanding obedience to his every whim. With madness like this, who needs sanity...
...original document effectively severed student actions from both their political context and the question of Administration responsibility. The CRR, operating without students, who had resigned in protest of the Faculty's moves, moved into a position of prominence as almost two hundred students were disciplined at its whim. The Commission, given only advisory powers, was relegated to innocuously investigating matters of little importance...
...their own without losing any benefits; last year the cutoff was $1,680. Widows and widowers will henceforth receive the entire amount of benefits due to a deceased spouse, instead of only 82.5% as in the past. And from 1975 on, recipients will no longer be dependent on the whim of Congress for raises in benefits to keep pace with the cost of living. The 3% maximum annual raise in future years will be automatic...