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William Manchester, stricken with trichinosis, enters Flower Fifth Avenue Mrs. John F. Kennedy sends him a candy-gram. After a ten-minute walking tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts the war will be over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make LSD scarcer and therefore more expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LSD | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...papers - the Daily News and the Post -cover the Viet Nam war in considerable detail, but what really excites them is activity on the home front. Without leaving Saigon, their reporters uncover weirder and wilder stories than the battlefield could ever produce. Crime and sex are embellished with garbled gram mar, misspellings and typos. One typically zestful Post story began last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Antic English in Saigon | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

December is the gruelingest month, the time when there seem to be more seasonal "specials" than regular shows on TV. But this Thursday (7:30 p.m., E.S.T.), CBS will carry a special that really is special. For one thing, the pro gram is unpretentious; for another, it is unprolonged (30 minutes). Finally, it represents the overdue TV debut of the comic strip Peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Security Is a Good Show | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond issue by a humiliating 5-to-3 margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Detour to Tallahassee? | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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