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...drugs has long been a difficult legal question. They are not narcotics. The Food and Drug Administration has authority over the manufacture and distribution of LSD and psilocybin, which it has cleared for investigational use only. These two drugs are produced only by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Basel, with U.S. offices in New Jersey. Sandoz has supplied them to dozens of investigators, mostly psychiatrists, and to clinical psychologists working closely with psychiatrists. But some imported supplies of all three drugs, and especially LSD, have appeared on the black market. A competent organic chemist, with the proper raw materials and the know...
...Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland...
...Modern Western Art, the Russian Museum in Leningrad, and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, all dating from the pre-1914 period of Kandinsky's transition from nice painter to artistic revolutionary. When the giant retrospective closes in Manhattan this spring, it will travel to Paris, The Hague and Basel, and another show organized by the Guggenheim (minus the Russian loans) will open in Pasadena and later visit ten cities...
...Basel, Switzerland...
...much the Trujillos squeezed out of the Dominican Republic in 31 years of misrule will probably never be known. But a respected, independent Swiss newspaper, Basel's National-Zeitung, has made an informed-and startling-estimate. It comes to $800 million, half in cash, half in stocks and bonds, the bulk of it said to be salted away in a neat little empire of numbered Swiss bank accounts and disguised European holding companies. The sum is about equal to one year's gross national product in the Dominican Republic...