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...Japan's leading exponent of a new, totally modern yet distinctly native musical style. He scored R I N G, a plaintive, murmuring piece for flute, lute and guitar, not with notes but with a diagram of a circle containing directional signals for time, dynamics and pitch. In Corona for Strings, he achieved wispy as well as grating effects by directing the instrumentalists to improvise on the basis of colored plastic disks superimposed on their parts (yellow for soft, blue for loud...
...this year, 2,307 Japanese cars were sold, compared with 182 for all of 1966. As in Britain, Honda is making a big splash, and has already taken 7,000 orders for its mini-series for delivery next year. And in Belgium, Toyota's Corolla, Crown and Corona models trebled last year's sales of 1,000 in the first nine months...
...when taken orally in small doses, turns into a kind of mega-pep dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning cloud of light with sparks shooting off, jagged, in all the colors of the rainbow, the universe in the process of creation...
Indeed it can. The potential for addiction, warn the article's authors, is comparable to that of opiates or cocaine. Worse still, the drug may lead to psychosis or brain damage. About a third of the meth heads questioned at Corona indicated that their memory or ability to concentrate had been impaired by heavy doses. "From descriptions of the intensity of the paranoid state and the hypertension associated with amphetamine use," adds the article, "crimes of violence by amphetamine users appear likely in the future...
...believes that atmospheric refractions sometimes both magnify and bend the light from bright stars, causing them to resemble large and erratically moving disks. Electrical Engineer Philip Klass, an editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology, speculates that many UFOs may be a form of ball lightning generated by an electric corona that sometimes occurs on high-tension power lines, near which saucers are often sighted...