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...short for D-lysergic acid diethylamide), by far the most potent, is a chemical relative of the ergot drugs, synthesized in 1943 by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann. As Discoverer Hofmann found, and countless psychiatrists have since confirmed, a dose of LSD-25 can be so small as to be almost invisible and still destroy a man's mental equilibrium, at least temporarily. As little as four-millionths of an ounce is sometimes enough to throw an emotionally wobbly individual into a mental hospital. One victim, ill for months, was a psychologist who was trying out LSD himself...
...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-how spelled out in patents, could make...
...this was born from the curiosity of one small boy and the response of his father, William Slaton Jr., 36, a Negro chemist in the Rexall Drug Laboratories. A self-made scientist, Slaton knows the value of education. Too broke for fulltime college, he worked for years at odd jobs from welding to clerking before graduating at last, in 1951, from the University of Southern California...
Poor Soul. Did the Queen fall apart, or did she explode? The investigators may never find out. But one chemist testified that an explosion was a "great possibility" if the Queen's ventilation system had failed; one spark could have blown the ship to the bottom...
...Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula are ordered from separate suppliers in undisclosed quantities, and the formula is kept in a bank vault and in the heads of Chief Chemist Orville May and one assistant. Competing Dr. Pepper, also made from a secret formula, never allows the four executives who know it to fly on the same airplane. At Italy's Campari distillery, where Campari bitters are made for export to 97 countries, only one chemist knows how much...