Nation: The Man from D.E.L.P.H.I.

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Last week, between grappling with disarmament and New York's gubernatorial race, he plunged into the campaign to save New York City's Metropolitan Opera House from destruction. And this week, as acting chairman of the Government Operations Committee's executive reorganization subcommittee, he will head a two-day inquiry into the use of hallucinogenic drugs.* Any connection between LSD and executive reorganization may itself be a hallucination. But it will make news.

*For once, Brother Edward of Massachusetts, the quiet Kennedy, beat Bobby to a headline. Last week Teddy's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency had Mr. LSD himself, Dr. Timothy Leary, in the witness chair. "You definitely go out of your mind" when you take the drug, allowed Leary. "That is onerous to some people."

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