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...1950s by Neurophysiologist John C. Lilly, who is most widely known as the chap who communicates with dolphins. The original Isolation Tank Method, as he baptized it, was an experiment in self-exploration conducted for the National Institute of Mental Health. With, he says, an occasional assist from LSD, Dr. Lilly found that through solitary immersion in skin-temperature salt water-containing MgSO4 7H2O, a.k.a. Epsom salts-he could become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nirvana in a Dank, Dark Tank | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into the Elm St. sun and talk with the elderly man whose sign reads "Iran Still Holds Our Hostages--Put Kennedy in the White House" sign...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Getting His 2 Per Cent Worth | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...There's too much dope and LSD, too much speed and hashish in the schools. No one has any morals, and no one's religious--they're all hedonists," Louie Musolini said as he leaned out the window of his Yellow Cab near Central Square. "This is a good idea, as long as everyone can pray in their own religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabrigians Will Welcome Prayer Statute | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

...awesomely prophetic account of the Moslem Jihad of revenge that swept through Europe (Jihad! April in Paris!") in the late '80s world. ("4/7/87--Sheik Ali Fayadh Mahim was arrested in Beverly Hills today for trying to pass a bad emerald at Gucci's.") China, racked by hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Great Expectations | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...fiscal 1980 budget earmarks $41 million for start-up costs for the first $300 million LSD-41, a 15,774-ton amphibious vessel that could carry about 340 Marines. But senior officers would like a commitment of $1.2 billion for four of the new LSDs. The Marines also want 336 British-designed, vertical-takeoff Harrier attack planes (cost: $5.7 billion), plus 33 heavy-lift and attack helicopters ($400 million for the first year's production). Bringing Marine Corps ammunition stockpiles up to a level that could sustain combat operations would cost an extra $1.5 billion; improving battlefield command systems would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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