Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more are flocking to the university's general medical center and the County General Hospital. By best estimates, 10,000 students in the University of California system have tried LSD (though not all have suffered detectable ill effects). No one can even guess how many more self-styled "acid heads"* there are among oddball cult groups...
...prep schools. A 17-year-old user reports that there is a sales ring in his Sherman Oaks school pushing LSD at a penny a microgram. The usual dose of the pure chemical, used by psychiatric investigators, is 100 mcg. (1/300,000th of an ounce), but even junior acid heads boast of taking walloping overdoses. "I've taken as much as 500 micrograms," says one youthful user. "At least that's what I paid...
...generations afterward, Will Rogers twitted in the Twain vein, taking America and Americans to task: "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." Soon afterward Fred Allen followed with his own caustic acid. "He was not brought by the stork," Allen once said about a heritage-happy snob. "He was brought by a man from the Audubon Society personally." During the Depression, Allen recommended setting up "a crumb line for midgets." His friendly enemy, Jack Benny, was not far from Twain's platform personality in a radio skit in which...
...first reading, the research statistics also suggested a similarity between professors with high uric-acid content in their blood and those with high cholesterol levels. But further study showed a basic difference. The uric-acid types had strong drives; they reveled in their work...
What all this means, say Brooks and Mueller, is that further study is necessary to check the possibility that uric acid serves as a stimulant to the higher cortical (reasoning) centers of the brain. The Ann Arbor observations also suggest that since a tendency to gout is inheritable, an aptitude for a high level of leadership and achievement may be inherited also. Gout is apparently as common as ever (20 times more common in men than in women), but it attracts much less attention nowadays because it can usually be controlled with drugs, such as colchicine and probenecid...