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...today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup. Rollenhagen's in West Berlin...
...psychiatrists and psychologists who have worked with LSD, psilocybin and mescaline; they consider it the kind of happy talk that exerts a strong appeal on just the sort of unstable people most likely to be injured by the drugs. Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, and others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the Messiah. A college dropout committed suicide by slashing his arm and bleeding to death in a field...
Cure for the Rat Race. Even Lyndon Johnson has now declared himself the bicyclist's friend. Calling bike riders "the forgotten outdoorsmen of today," he said last March, "I see an America where our air is sweet to breathe and our rivers clean to swim in. I see an America where bicycle paths running through the hearts of our great cities provide wholesome, healthy recreation for entire families." Picking up his cue, the Interior Department now plans to build 10,000 miles of bike paths in national parks in the next decade...
...master of the many-splendored art of Irish malarkey was Flann O'Brien, pseudonymous author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Flann O'Brien was one of the pen names of Brian O'Nolan, wit, playwright and civil servant. Under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition...
...SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien. 315 pages. Walker...