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Grace Slick, throaty lead singer of the acid-rock group Jefferson Airplane, is expecting. According to the latest issue of Rolling Stone, her husband Jerry doesn't know anything about it because he's not the father. Guitarist Paul Kantner, another Airplane, is. Grace admits that she is "a little worried, what with all the weird drugs we've been taking." Anyway, the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-God. God Slick. Due in December...
...entrepreneurs started negotiations last summer with a display of toothy smiles. But as Steinberg pressed for more financial information and disliked what he learned, the smiles turned to snarls. The resulting battle has become one of the longest, most acid and most entertaining in British business history. Steinberg's charges and Maxwell's countercharges have frequently enlivened prime-time television. Even the Board of Trade, Britain's overseer of commercial practices, is investigating the controversy...
...millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts. This depletion can be deadly. Lack of bicarbonate turns the blood more acid. Vomiting further dehydrates and weakens the victim; the dehydration shuts down the kidneys and allows toxic materials to accumulate in the body...
Into: to be deeply involved ("He's really into acid...
...same, the Robinsons have achieved a bigger goal: saving their relationship with Sue, a sophomore at the University of Washington, who now abhors most of the drug scene, especially "the dealers, who don't care about the poor kid on the street who gets a bum tab of acid." Who educated whom? The kids led the way, says Robinson...