Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grunt/RCA). A decade ago, when just a mere Airplane, the San Francisco trippers pioneered acid rock. Here is their best album in years, a free-flowing blend of rock, jazz and folk...
...Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size, mass and density evolved in such a dramatically different...
...story about his own alleged kidnaping; he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of filing a false police report and was given six months' probation. Weir, 28, feature editor of a slick investigative magazine called Sun-Dance before its demise in 1972, wrote the article that exposed Acid King Timothy Leary as a police informer, discrediting him in the eyes of his counterculture admirers. Scott fears that Weir is now trying to undermine Patty's credibility, just in case she starts testifying against her fellow revolutionaries...
DEHYDROACETIC ACID. Impairs kidney function and causes vomiting and convulsions...
...turn of the century, hucksters sold worm syrup and other nostrums to cure everything from rheumatism to cirrhosis. Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development...