Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest item in the pharmacopoeia is a concoction called STP, apparently named after the gasoline additive ("It makes your motor run better," say hippies). Similar to a chemical-warfare product code-named "BZ," STP can produce a 72-hour trip-up to six times the length of an LSD voyage-and generates the "blinding white light" of hallucinatory omniscience that many hippies claim is the be-all and end-all of the drug experience. Believed to be a chemical called 5-methoxy-NN-dime-thyltryptamine, STP cannot be treated, as LSD is, by use of chlorpromazine tranquilizers to ease...
...Cuba's Fidel Castro, was sullen. There were no decorations, no honor guard, no military band. And not until half an hour after Kosygin's arrival did Radio Havana get around to mentioning the visit. Even then, it gave only a brief announcement barely longer than another item praising workers of the Balcan pasteurization plant for delivering their quota of yoghurt...
...Hours of Tests. Penicillin G, one of the most widely used forms of the supreme antibiotic, differs from aspirin in being a prescription item, but resembles it in being free of patent, royalty and basic-research costs. Yet here again there is a huge price spread: E. R. Squibb & Sons charges the druggist $6.62 for 100 tablets of 200,000 units, while Pennex Products Co. of Verona, Pa., sells the same number, same strength, for 920. And Pennex must meet not only U.S.P. standards, but the running check on all antibiotic batches maintained by two different Government agencies...
Miller's chief technical contribution to the art of dog psychology is an item he calls the "Hi-Fido." Retailed for $11.95 along with training manuals, it is a tiny tuning fork, attached to a simple chain, that vibrates at 34,200 cycles per second-just above a dog's threshold of hearing. The sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted...
When St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer George Hall dines with certain friends, he knows that he is welcome-but his paper is so detested that it is not allowed over the doorstep. When St. Louis Public Relations Man Harry Wilson has an important news item for the press, he is torn between releasing it in time for the morning Globe-Democrat or the afternoon Post-Dispatch-either way, one of the papers is sure to squawk. When Globe Food Editor Marian O'Brien was writing a column recently, she got carried away by the combative sense of loyalty...