People: May 9, 1983

Those two Harvard boys from the fraternal order of lambda sigma delta returned to the old campus last week for the first time since being ousted 20 years ago for involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking."

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