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...taken too much mescaline too soon and, as he watched Mick Jagger prance around the stage at Boston Garden, he thought he was either seeing God or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There was a moment at the brink of the abyss, but then he decided in favor of God and pulled himself together. Like nearly everyone else...
...Cope. In clinical studies involving 500 people, Sulman's team experienced few problems in treating the majority of patients. Small doses of drugs called monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors aided the elderly by slowing the breakdown of adrenaline. Drugs that prevent serotonin buildup helped those adversely affected by the ionized air. So did the lonotron, a machine the size of a tabletop radio. Developed by Hebrew University scientists, the device supplies negative electricity to an indoor area, bringing relief to overcharged victims...
...covering letter from the Citizens' Commission provides a breakdown of the stolen documents according to subject matter. Thirty per cent are manuals and routine forms, 25 per cent concern bank robberies, 20 per cent murder, rape, and interstate theft, 7 per cent draft resistance, 7 per cent AWOL soldiers and 1 per cent organized crime, including gambling...
...Millionaire George T. Delacorte (Dell Publishing Co.) financed an Alice in Wonderland sculpture for Central Park, then watched vandals assault it. He spent thousands on the mechanical animals that twirl in the park's zoo clock tower-and then much more on crews to repair the almost weekly breakdown of the machinery...
...Admission Office this year employed the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS) in Princeton to help cope with the deluge of applications. After a breakdown last Fall which put the selection process four to five weeks-behind schedule, the Admissions Office was able to recover the lost time as the LSDAS system gained efficiency, Leonard said...