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Most swingers remained on the 8,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, gyrating to three alternating bands whose blast and big beat were amplified through a loudspeaker system suddenly gone berserk. For those driven out by the din, the club has other diversions: a reading room and TV room (one color set), a movie theater (avantgarde shorts). Street-vendor carts push Nathan's Famous hot dogs (50?), and the bar serves liberal portions of Pepsi-Cola, but nothing stronger than beer and wine is served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Life: The Roar of the Cheetah, The Look of the Crowd | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...seem to belong to them. Other students said that LSD actually wiped out their identity until they could fade into a knot on the wall and watch humanity pass, performing its insignificant tasks. "LSD," one student said, "is an excuse to sit back and let your imagination go berserk...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Drug-Users at Harvard Explain their Views About Pot and LSD | 3/7/1966 | See Source »

...pretty well later on, founding Pan American Airways in 1927. Chairman and chief executive officer of Pan Am, Trippe accepted the foundation's 1965 Gold Medal Award at the banquet in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and chuckled: "The selection committee must have gone berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 17, 1965 | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Father Nedel's African colony at the University in São Leopoldo suddenly went berserk, forced one of his assistants to take refuge in a truck, then turned on another man, two dogs and several children. Next day the Jesuit beekeeper ordered his eight African queens destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Danger from the African Queens | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...inevitably there were still questions. No one knew whether Ramírez had gone berserk, as he claimed, or had deliberately planned a hijacking. What happened to the cook was unknown. It was fairly certain, at least, that the bloodbath occurred in U.S. jurisdictional waters. At week's end the Justice Department charged Ramírez with five counts of murder, one of piracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exiles: Slaughter on the Seven Seas | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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