Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found, only about one seven-hundred-millionth of a healthy young man's weight in LSD to produce a model psychosis lasting five to ten hours. In experiments recorded by a movie camera (see cut}, a psychology student volunteer, age 23, took 100 micro-grams and wrote afterward: "I had very little by way of visual hallucination, but what I consider the important thing was that ... I was dissociated, plagued, pounded, weighted-all these are inadequate to describe the horrible state I was in, all of them put together. Perhaps the central thing was suspicion and fear that...
...checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing all day-and rest afterward." He romanced Ava Gardner, hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway, flirted in Hollywood and Las Vegas. Last spring he married luscious Lucia Bose, Miss Italy...
...into an office-boy's job with Ferdinand Strauss, whose Zippo the Climbing Monkey and Alabama Coon Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled as a noisemaker at parties...
...White & Black. Soon afterward, in his own inimitable way, at a visit to the 2,500-year-old gilded Shwe Dagon, peace-loving Nikita Khrushchev was busily easing world tensions once again. "The oldest British church," he sneered, eying the Burmese shrine, "is only 1,000 years old, yet the British call you barbarians." Then, recalling the recent unpleasantness about Moscow Chief Architect Vlasov, who was blasted by his government while visiting the U.S., he singled out another Russian architect in Rangoon to cry, "Look out, comrade, I see you are standing with American and French reporters. They...
...only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps. If I had waited 50 years more I could not have made a truer commitment than I made that day as a child." Afterward, his father warned him that some of his playmates might tease him about it. "If they do," he advised, "tell them Yes, I've been baptized, and I only wish you had been, too." Decision in Hammond. The Adams family moved to a pastorate in industrial Hammond, Ind. As a high...