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Post-banana man is turning to the halls of academe for succor. Or more precisely, the walls. A number of students have reported "turning on" by drinking small quantities of water left standing for 24 hours with strips of grape ivy bark...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Ivy - Heads | 4/1/1967 | See Source »

...reality, MacBird is a mangy little terrier of a satire, nipping at the trouser cuffs of the mighty. Its bark is its bite. Holier than thou in its complacency and self-indulgently assured of how In-funny it is, MacBird is an off-campus transplant of college humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mangy Terrier | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...EPENA, a potent snuff, is produced by the naked Waika Indians of northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Beyond LSD | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...family (John, two half brothers, a half sister, as well as her mother and stepfather). Much of what she had left she spent on phone calls back to Britain. Her half brother Donald still tells how he used to kick the family Welsh corgi, Humpty, to make him bark a transatlantic hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...also perpetrator of a syndicated joke column and author of 21 joke and riddle books that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies, and a longtime panelist on that somewhat tiresome but seemingly indestructible TV parlor game, What's My Line? Wherever he goes, autograph hounds bark at his heels. Little ol|i ladies leap out of dark corners to foist "upon him shopping bags stuffed with autobiography. Cerf is the foist man in the world to welcome them (as he would put it). For who knows but that the next dingaling to come along will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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