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...U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within 24 hours. Hare Rama Bidis are an Indian import made from an Asian tobacco that contains up to ten times as much nicotine as the tobacco used in U.S. cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal and Unsafe | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Boonsanong Punyod-yana, 39, the articulate, American-educated secretary-general of the Socialist Party, was gunned down in his car while returning home from a political meeting. Later in the week a bomb exploded at dawn in Bangkok's Rama VI Engineering School and killed three students. In all, there have been a dozen deaths related to the current election campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Democracy in Danger | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...result is something of a mish-Mass. In the Credo, Moses recites "the Lord is one," but then along comes Rama, the ideal man who himself is worshiped as one of many Hindu gods-exactly the opposite of what Moses had in mind. In the climactic Resurrection scene, Jesus joins Elijah, Mohammed, Buddha and Shiva in ascending the stage's tiers toward God. Yet for Christians (presumably even for New York Episcopalians), Jesus is thought to be part of the Godhead. To Hindus, Shiva the Destroyer-Restorer is one of the greatest of gods. Odd company indeed for Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mish-Mass | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Your review of Carrying the Fire by Mike Collins refers to his vision of a spacecraft with a crew of women with bobbing breasts. I have beaten Astronaut-Author Collins to the NASA SUTRA. The opening of chapter 11 of my Rendezvous with Rama reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...hard core rock-and-roll fan's love for Sha Na Na. Starting slowly with "Duke of Earl," the band increases the tempo and intensity of its performance with each succeeding song gently arousing the audience. With a passionate frenzy the group rocks through "Tossin' and Turnin," "Rama Lama Ding Dong," and the show-ending "At the Hop" to bring the audience to a breathless peak of excitement...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Sha Na Na: Revitalizing Revivalists | 11/9/1973 | See Source »

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