Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cash & Concessions. While this normal fretwork of the politicians went on, the general himself calmly busied himself with the here and now. To supply the government with ready cash, and to sop up excess purchasing power, wispy Fi put on sale 3.5% tax-free government bonds, which as a hedge against inflation will be pegged to the market value of the gold napoleon (last week 3.600 francs). While De Gaulle appealed to patriotism in launching the loan. Pinay remembered the practical side. In the hope of attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen...
...company of other
males, 18 preferred that of women (13 were indifferent). Several would
have been willing to marry for the sake of having children, but could
not bear the thought of heterosexual intercourse.
...head injury) as some investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
...performed a strange experiment. Research Director Albert Hofmann meticulously dissolved five milligrams of white crystals in a test tube of water. Then, while tense assistants looked on, he swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly colored...
...reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled cell." O'Connor came to the brink of the same fate. "Through lack of a normal sex-life . . . and through drink, delusions set in . . ." A couple of years later, "I phoned a psychiatrist: 'Shall I,' I said, 'hold on, or come to you?' He said: 'Hold on'; which I did." Slowly, "I ... began to feel my way to health-of a kind...