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Charlie's napalm-to-nuclear capability is the result of a Government-sponsored experiment in which her mother and father, both college students at the time, had volunteered to be injected with a powerful new hypnotic-hallucinogenic drug that is euphemistically known as Lot Six and is called dilysergic triune acid, obviously a by-blow of LSD. Vicky, the mother, develops telekinetic ability, manipulating objects without physical contact. Andy McGee comes off the couch with the power to dominate and direct -"push," in King's word-other people's minds. The drug has changed both parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Moppet | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Huntington Avenue at the Med School or behind the great rhinoceri that guard the Bio Labs--they are doing it. And we know they are because they did it in Vietnam, when they told the President that the war could be won and then suggested that he use napalm to do it. Two Harvard men, one of them who may teach you about democracy and one of whom wants to be Secretary of State again, did that...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...Avenue on Holyoke St. and the Harvard Pro) two buildings and two police cars were gutted with fire as guerilla warfare invaded Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. Rocks, bottles and the sound of "Street Fighting Man" from a room in Claverly to be sure, rather than M-16s, napalm and black pajamas, but it would do. Tear gas canisters tossed into the Yard--and tossed back--and into Quincy House courtyard. A curfew gave Cambridge police the power to arrest on sight anyone seen walking the streets. The Crimson turned into a makeshift first-aid center as police charges...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Ten Years Ago This Spring | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Poison gas attacks. Napalm. Strafing by jets. Random executions of women and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sealing a Border | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...emits a paralyzing gas as it hits the ground. If it is inhaled at a distance of 100 yds., the gas immobilizes its victims and leads to uncontrollable retching. At close range, it attacks the central nervous system and causes death. Even more feared by the Afghans is a napalm-like substance fashioned into tiny, marble-sized balls that is spewed from helicopter rocket pods. The sticky little balls cling to everything from beards and headdresses to animals and buildings. Unsuspecting children often pick them up, until they learn that the balls are impossible to fling off. They apparently ignite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sealing a Border | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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