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Occupational Hazard. Cairo Radio still beams shrill demands that "the criminal King of Jordan" be overthrown, and Hussein never leaves his palace without a loaded pistol in his shoulder holster. But plucky little Hussein - scornfully referred to by Cairo as "transistor-size" because of his 5-ft. 6-in. height - has a king-size knack for survival. This year alone, he escaped three murder attempts, all laid to Nasser. "Assassination." says Premier Wasfi Tal dryly, "is an occupational hazard for the King and his Cabinet...
...weeks ago, Dean Monro reopened the controversy with a warning to undergraduates to steer clear of psilocybin and other "consciousness-expanding drugs" because they pose a "serious hazard to the mental health and stability of even apparently normal people...
...three recent CRIMSON articles (widely reprinted in the national press) Harvard administrators have stated, that consciousness-expanding drugs (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin) are "a serious hazard to the mental health and stability even of apparently normal people." While these statements are conservative from the administrative point of view, they are reckless and inaccurate from the scientific. The published facts and the philosophical-political implications deserve thoughtful review. To understand the importance of this issue, it is necessary to realize that more is involved than the more handlings of drugs. What is in question is the freedom or control of consciousness...
Scattered about the experimental hall are sober reminders of the potential danger in the work being conducted here. Three-pronged "Radiation" signs are all about; flashing lights warn of special dangers. Above the door which leads into the accelerator tunnel is an illuminated, blood-red notice, "Hazard to Life Machine...
...Quite a Band." Leinsdorf's extraordinarily rapid ability to assimilate new scores has already amazed his orchestra: a week before he had to lead the Boston through Samuel Barber's intricate new Piano Concerto (see above), he had not received a complete score, a hazard he dismissed as being part of "musical tradition." Just before leading the orchestra in Philharmonic Hall, Leinsdorf conducted Walter Piston's Symphony No. 7 in Boston, rehearsing it for the first time purely from memory. Said an astounded Piston: "I wasn't prepared for a man to know my score better...