Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts of dopamine. They are now trying to develop drugs that will restore the balance between these chemicals...
...lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make lead-free gasoline available at all major gas stations by next summer. Another problem is that the converter emits minute amounts of yet another pollutant -a fine mist of sulfuric acid. One solution might be for refineries to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline...
...last September in San Francisco. Columbia had recently been rocked to its storage bins by the firing of its adroit, youthful (41) president, Clive Davis, on grounds of improperly diverting corporate funds to personal uses. Fears of a scandal concerning "drugola"-the alleged currying of favor by supplying acid, pot and cocaine to rock groups and disc jockeys-hung over the entire industry, Columbia included. When Davis' successor strode to the podium and began his remarks by quipping: "A funny thing happened to me on my way to retirement," everyone laughed-but not too hard. If there...
...feel less threatened by the comet, particularly because of its coincidence with Christmas. "I do not mean to suggest that another Christ will be born," wrote James Grayson Bolen, editor and publisher of the magazine Psychic, "but rather that an inner birth of Christ-like consciousness might occur." Imprisoned Acid Guru Timothy Leary, who was recently the beneficiary of a fund-raising "Comethon" in Santa Cruz, Calif., shares this optimism: "The Comet Starseed [Kohoutek] comes at the right time to return light to the planet earth." Adds Carl Schleicher, whose Washington-based Mankind Research Unlimited Inc. exploits mind control...
...exactly sure just what audience Siddhartha was trying to reach. Hesse's work was a big book on the campuses in the mid-sixties, but unless you have been taking acid every day for the last five years, suffer from terminal brain disease, and have felt an uncontrollable inclination lately to find out what "Millenium '73" is all about, Siddhartha is not likely to do much for your level of consciousness...