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...beginning of the end, though, came in 1966 when a Dutchess County (New York) assistant D.A. named G. Gordon Liddy raided Leary's Millbrook mansion, which the doctor used courtesy of an Andrew Mellon heir. Two minor-possession arrests eventually landed Leary in a San Luis Obispo, California, prison in 1970, but he escaped with the help of the radical Weather Underground, then materialized among the Black Panthers in Algeria. Betrayed and recaptured in 1973, Leary spent most of the next three years in prison. When he was released, he turned his attentions to SMILE (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life...
...seasons later we bused our way out to IFIF's digs in upstate New York. Maybe the stars were wrong. Or it could have been the way we came barging up to the Millbrook mansion on a sleepy Sunday morn in a gaudy vehicle belching green and orange smoke while Neal Cassady's voice blared from the rooftop speakers. Dr. Leary was upstairs, we were informed, sleeping one off. We left before he woke...
...Delano Roosevelt Jr., 72, son of the 32nd President and Democratic Congressman representing New York's 20th District from 1949 to 1954; in critical but improving condition following surgery after he, Wife Linda, 47, and Son Jack, 9, were thrown from a horse-drawn cart on their farm in Millbrook, N.Y.; in Poughkeepsie...
...always a discipline problem," says Doolittle, an instructor in Expository Writing. The son of a private school headmaster, Doolittle was kicked out of the Millbrook School for Boys in the spring of his senior year for being "ethically wet behind the ears," he says...
DIED. Noel Fairchild Busch, 78, journalist and author who worked as a writer for TIME (1927-38), as an editor and senior writer for LIFE (1938-52) and as a World War II correspondent for both magazines; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Millbrook, N.Y. His books include biographies of Franklin Roosevelt (1944), Adlai Stevenson (1952), Theodore Roosevelt (1963) and Briton Hadden (1949), his cousin and co-founder with Henry Luce of Time...