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...other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums (for flower power if cornered by militant hippies), first-aid kit, gross of aspirin, and finally, a passepartout, collectively endorsed by A.D.A., Y.I.P., the Geneva Conference, Mayor Daley, the Black Panthers and Interpol, certifying that the bearer is an accredited seeker of peace, racial harmony, revolution, law and order and legalized...
...French farce uses bedrooms. Gerald Hardcastle (David Niven), an elegant British banker with a cool million and a cooler mistress (Irina Demick), decides that he wants out of his dreary twelve-year marriage. Knowing that his wife Prudence (Deborah Kerr) has hardly been faithful herself, he substitutes aspirin for her birth control pills in hopes that she'll become pregnant by her lover so he can sue for divorce. Meanwhile, the Hardcastle maid decides to yield to her boy friend's advances and swipes Madam's pills for protection...
...Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage one of his lungs critically. The donor: Anne Main, an 18-year-old Edinburgh bank teller who died as a result of an overdose of aspirin-like painkiller. Tight-lipped in reaction to the press publicity that followed Dr. Donald N. Ross's London heart transplant two weeks ago, Logan and his colleagues would say nothing more than "The patient is doing well-at present...
...drug which figured in this first disqualification in Derby history was Phenylbutazone, which, ironically, is as far from the "dope" that the Record American immediately labelled it, as owner Peter Fuller '46 is from Mafia leader Raymond Patriarcha. "Bute" is the equine equivalent of aspirin, a simple pain-killer which is widely used by veterinarians and has no stimulating effects. Its use was legal until several years...
...first half, was played on Ampex and Sony tape decks, McIntosh amplifiers, and six large speaker enclosures along the walls. The first Visage, "L'air et l'eau," was dull, using everyday electronic sounds to no new effects. It sounded distressingly like the background music to either an aspirin commercial or a spaceranger episode. "Voix de la Ville" and "Forges," on the other hand, were fresh, and full of exciting ideas, unusual sounds creating a wide range of mental images: massive steam engines running wild, fiery boilers bursting at the seams; or perhaps the violent battle between Orlando and Mandraicado...