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...releasing a heavily documented booklet by John E. Patton, a Roman Catholic attorney who lives in Maplewood. As Patton paints it, TM was going nowhere till the Maharishi in 1967-68 decided to "camouflage" it as a secular "science" in order to qualify for taxpayer funds and reach a wider following. Since then TM has become the McDonald's of meditation, attracting hundreds of thousands of initiates...
...losing one's job, employees at Harvard are reluctuant to talk for the record about the instances of discrimination they witness. In recent weeks, the Task Force has been interviewing employees in an effort to gather data on discrimination occurring in the work place. These interviews reveal a much wider practice of discrimination than use of the grievance procedure would indicate...
...editor of the Harvard Political Review, bringing with him the seeds of a cultural revolution. Mendelson's predilictions were towards graphics, promotion, and marketing, as were those of his associate editor, Tim Bliss '75. They thought that with a slicker-looking product the Review could appeal to a much wider audience than just the Harvard wastebaskets where it had languished so long...
Blitz Alert. Some 50,000 to 100,000 Americans are now on lithium, and Fieve thinks "millions more" could benefit from it. Critics complain that the drug is already reaching patients who are not manic-depressives. Fieve thinks wider use is bound to come. His own four-year study reports lithium is "clearly effective" for severe recurrent depression. The drug is now being tested for everything from schizophrenia to alcoholism and aggressive behavior. The drug is nonaddictive but must be carefully monitored, and blood levels should be checked frequently; an overdose can bring on coma or death. Cautions Dr. Ralph...
...splendor. Giannini, with eyes of stinging intensity, has been leading man for Wertmuller in all her movies released in America. Like her, Giannini knows how to work right at the taproot of his character. There has been no one quite like him since Mastroianni, but Giannini shows an even wider range, not just of roles, but of spirit...