Word: ethereal
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...Troy Felber has found that painting herpes simplex sores with light-sensitive dyes and then exposing them to light from a fluorescent tube cuts the healing time* by 50%. Drs. G. Robert Nugent and Samuel Chou of the West Virginia University Medical Center recently reported that applications of ordinary ether or chloroform will clear up herpes sores in as little as two days, apparently by altering the virus so as to make it more vulnerable to the body's natural defenses. Other doctors are finding the antiviral drug isoprinosine effective. An oral drug that seems to bolster the body...
...drink nor smoke, daydream, hallucinate mildly just before sleep, and meditate or withdraw from the waking state without realizing that they are in effect, "high." Young children whirl around madly to produce dizziness or "vertiginous stupor;" they also hyperventilate, inhale the fumes of volatile solvents, experience the effects of ether during operations. As they grow older they learn that such practices are not acceptable to adults, sublimate the desire to experience altered consciousness, and eventually regain social approval of a high by drinking and-or taking drugs...
...talking about taking theater-his kind of rough, tough, he-man theater-to national audiences, even those that think that Manhattan is an island halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah. Beyond that, there is of course TV, and if Papp has his way, the ether will soon be saturated with drama in the Papp manner. A greasepaint Napoleon, he encompasses the theatrical world. As he opens New York City's 16th annual Shakespeare Festival in Central Park this week with a production of Hamlet starring Stacy Keach, congratulations-even self-congratulations-are indeed in order...
Phil Collins led off the Harvard fifth with a walk. Vince McGugan doubled him home. After Ignaclo's ground-out, Dan DeMichele laced a double to center to score McGugan. Boynton bore down on Varney with his fastball, and he responded by sending one into the ether regions to give Harvard a 6-3 lead...
...drunks, and snarling boozily at Progressgas pipelines and defoliating chemicals. At the same time he sheds 90-proof tears for the Old Verities: small farms, unpolluted streams and 19th century motherhood. Finally, he takes off for Mexico with a girl who can "turn herself from earth to ether and back again...