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...drug was developed in 1938 by Dr. Albert Hofmann, a research chemist at the Sandoz laboratories at Basel, Switzerland, who was trying to find a new stimulant for the nervous system. He did not know what he had done, however, until five years later, when he accidentally inhaled a minute amount and became dizzy and delirious, with "fantastic visions of extraordinary vividness accompanied by a kaleidoscopic play of intense coloration...
...slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what books you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of the drugs may be bubbling even now in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann, who was back in the Basel lab last week after receiving from Stockholm's Karolingska Institute an honorary degree for the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide...
...Swiss chemist and 1948 Nobel Prizewinner for medicine, who in 1939 concocted something he called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, later known as DDT, which by killing all manner of disease-carrying pests has proved to be one of the greatest health-saving agents yet developed by man; of a stroke; in Basel, Switzerland...
...date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows it most likely was produced at a mill that began operating in Basel, Switzerland, about...
...world monetary system. Former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon warned that if "urgent" steps are not taken now to provide another source of liquidity, the dry-up of dollars will "hamper world trade, slow up the economic growth of individual countries and threaten a worldwide recession." Meeting in Basel, the Bank for International Settlements exhorted the major Western powers to end their stalemate over how to overhaul monetary arrangements. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing cheered a throng of European financiers by indicating that France's position on monetary reform has become more flexible; he called...