Word: acidizing
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...Manhattan, four F.W. Woolworth stores and a supermarket were fire-bombed one night last week with reasonably sophisticated incendiary devices ignited by acid. Two days later in Washington, bombs went off at four Latin American embassies...
Fatal Flaw. It promises to be an acid test. At the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Manila last week, Washington's allies showed little enthusiasm for any regional plan. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel that his nation might decline to provide any substantial assistance unless its own security were "directly threatened." Some U.S. officials are convinced that Thanat is merely trying to squeeze more aid funds out of Washington; so far Bangkok has "loaned" Phnom-Penh some river-patrol craft, as well as five T-28 propeller-driven bombers...
Barber notes that hypnotists have claimed the ability to produce and inhibit labor contractions and allergic reactions, to improve vision and to change heartbeat rates, blood-glucose levels and stomach-acid secretions. But, he says, "in each case there is evidence that the same things can also be obtained by suggestion alone." Barber claims that he has demonstrated the ability of subjects to recall long-forgotten memories -without hypnosis...
Rock these days seems to be retreating from the sound barrier. The mind-blasting chaos of California-bred acid is still to be heard, and almost everywhere the unmistakable beat goes on. At the same time, though, rock has become more personal, curious and deep, largely through the work of a new breed of solo troubadours who write their own stuff and occasionally deliver it in person. The handy and somewhat disparaging label for this new style of defused, intimate and literate pop is "salon rock." No one in the business, however, puts down the genuine talents...
Holder Molecules. To confirm his hypothesis, Koshland and two young Berkeley colleagues-Dan R. Storm and Kenneth Neet-devised an experiment of classical simplicity. It involved the common chemicals ethyl alcohol and acetic acid, which, in the presence of a catalyst, quickly combine to form an aromatic compound called ethyl acetate (without a catalyst, the reaction occurs very slowly). Instead of using standard catalysts, however, the scientists chemically locked both molecules into various synthetic ring-shaped, larger molecules called "holders," which are in effect chemical vises. After many attempts, they hit upon a holder that gripped the ethyl alcohol...