Word: acidity
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Some of them, attempting to find salvation in a sugar cube, make something called "psychedelic cinema." Their intention is to reproduce on the screen what they see while they are in the acid bag. Even farther out is something called "expanded cinema" or "mixed-media environments," a sort of avant-garde circus in which movies, theater, recorded music, kinetic sculpture and light paintings are fused into a single engulfing experience...
Died. Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 76, France's highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris...
Chief culprits in the Donora, London and New York smog disasters were probably sulphur dioxide and sulphur trioxide, which, either in gaseous form or converted into sulphuric-acid mist, can irritate the skin, eyes and upper respiratory tract. Extreme exposure, such as might occur in an industrial accident, can do irreparable damage to the lungs-and even attack the enamel on teeth...
...example, to penetrate deeper into the lungs than it could on its own; without particles to carry it, the gas can be exhaled relatively easily from the upper respiratory tract. Other participates act as catalysts in the atmosphere, speeding the conversion of sulphur dioxide into more harmful sulphuric acid. Particles of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, chromium and possibly manganese, discharged into the atmosphere by a variety of man-made processes, may contribute to cancer and heart disease...
...meaning Clark Kerr had unquestionably done much for the university. He shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during the student revolt, Kerr-as the students might put it -lost his cool. Thereafter, his indecisiveness managed to alienate, at one time or another, the regents, the faculty, the administration and the students alike. Unquestionably, many Californians agreed with the judgment...