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...several minutes-or was it several centuries?-not merely gazing at those bamboo legs but actually being them . . ." Amateur Mystic Huxley was experimenting with mescaline, a drug which some have thought might become a psychiatrist's tool, like pentothal and Amytal. The purpose of these drugs is to banish a patient's inhibitions and "bring him out of himself." One of the most effective of these drugs-and most bizarre in its brain-stabbing effects-is lysergic acid diethylamide, better known to the trade...
This story, given to the House Appropriations Committee last week, highlighted a fast-growing problem in both medicine and crime. The pills were amphetamine,* which users call "goof balls" or "bennies." They produce a feeling of exhilaration, temporarily banish fatigue, and seem to sharpen the perceptions. That is why, in The Cruel Sea, the ship's surgeon gave them to Captain Ericson after days & nights on the bridge. But, as the doctor warned him then, the aftereffects are severe. The FDA lists increased fatigue and insomnia, and maybe aggressiveness, suicidal tendencies or collapse...
Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...
Examination schedules are complicated, requiring much human and electronic energy to plot. Yet the Registrar's office has personnel and IBM machines in abundance, as well as four months to banish Fogg. We can only hope that all these assets will be put to good...
...Adman-Novelist Frederic Wakeman hung on them like an albatross six years ago. Even Tide, an advertising trade paper, has often used the term. But in a recent editorial, Tide said it was doing its best to strike the offending word from its copy, sermonized that admen should help banish the term by not acting like hucksters...