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...begun to look like the boss: Manolo's sideburns have fallen to mid-ear level in recent months; his hair has become fuller above the temples, and the greasy kid stuff has disappeared. The reason: Manolo has placed himself in the hands of Nixon's hair stylist, Milton Pitts...
...James, trouble began after he was sent off to strait-laced and demanding Milton Academy, outside Boston. Says he: "There were things going on in my head other than what the Milton people thought was right and proper." Milton's dean, John Torney, recalls James with a sigh. "We just weren't ready for him," Torney explains. "James was more sensitive and less goal oriented than most students of his day. I'm sure James knew about drugs long before anyone else here...
...mainly for his height (he was known as "Moose") and for a certain mastery of poetic metaphors in English class. He dropped out for part of a term, and with Alex, he joined a North Carolina band called the Fabulous Corsayers that played straight rock 'n' roll. Back at Milton, he grew suicidal, and at 17, he signed himself into the McLean Hospital, a mental home in Belmont, Mass...
There were screens on the windows. Hospital personnel counted up the silverware after meals to be sure no patient had concealed a potential weapon. But to James, compared to Milton it seemed paradise regained. Besides doctors and nurses, there were plenty of hi-fi sets. "Above all," James says, "the day was planned for me there, and I began to have a sense of line and structure, like canals and railroad tracks." The hospital even had a high school, from which James duly graduated. He still has high praise for it because it genuinely interested students in learning. "We didn...
...Milton cost $2,700 a year. McLean customarily runs around $36,000. But besides structure and schooling, it provided James with an opportunity to think. He began to reflect upon what it takes to survive?beyond sensitivity and naked faith in human nature. Says he: "In a euphoric society existentialism would be fine. The way things are now, though, it certainly is necessary to have buffers like Christianity. To me Jesus is a metaphor, but also a manifestation of needs and feelings people have deep within themselves." After nine months of thinking things out at McLean, James also came...