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...Reviewed the parade of tall ships from the U.S.S. John Kennedy with invited guests such as Yogi Berra...
Everything changed in the shock wave of the '60s, from the music and the clothes to the cultural icons. Eastern religions were in; the words mantra and ashram entered our vocabulary, and gurus emerged to offer us paths to enlightenment. A Hindu swami calling himself Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced Transcendental Meditation to the West and collected celebrity followers; and a fired Ivy League psychology professor named Richard Alpert went to India and became Ram Dass, servant of God. Three decades later, they are both back in the news...
When the Beatles huddled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967, he was already exporting Transcendental Meditation to a waiting world. By 1975 his U.S. organization had 370 centers, and 30,000 people a month were signing on to learn his 40-min. technique for finding bliss. This was no holy hermit: that same year he was on the cover of TIME...
...fledgling medium of commercial television that 44 years would elapse before another summer upstart offering dazzling dollars in prime time would again galvanize the TV audience and spur a rash of imitations. The similarities between what is happening now and what happened during the '50s may not amount, in Yogi Berra's diagnosis, to a case of deja vu all over again, but those interested in looking ahead and guessing how the current quiz-show mania will play can find some suggestive clues by looking back...
...crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism] of any other religion but their own. I'm the opposite. I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree." The ex-wrestler growls, "Wait 'til I ever see them face to face...