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Given a standard (25 micrograms) dose of LSD 25, the patient first shows the symptoms of an addict of hashi He starts giggling or crying, soon switches to silence punctuated by an occasional scream. He trembles, sweats, and shows every symptom of terrible anxiety. Then he goes into one of several "experiences": ¶ Patients can often recall and re-experience their childhood in clear detail. Wrote one woman: "I realized that I was reliving an incident that occurred when I was quite small, on holiday ... I was not in the least surprised to see my hand and arm [become] quite...
...southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung) in the house quite a bit of the time...
When free from both teaching and administration, Owen likes to listen to music, not always of the relaxing variety. His friends say he is a jazz addict, and can often be found at Mahogany Hall with his wife, both enjoying the blare tremendously. "Like everyone else," he says, "I've gone fairly batty about music. Got a machine several year sago, and that's like putting your head in the lion...
...been told where to find Bobby. Their informant: the kidnap leader. He was Carl Austin Hall, 34, a thief, an alcoholic and a morphine addict (one-half grain every six hours). His past was odd and ugly...
...While I lived in the United States I was a science-fiction addict myself," confessed Hungarian Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler in Harper's Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...