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Discussing the young Australian leukemia victim in the June 28 issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. O. Margaret Garson and Meryl K. Robson moved a little closer to blaming LSD directly for the abnormalities. "The association between the ingestion of lysergide and the occurrence of acute leukemia may be casual rather than causal," they wrote, "but certain unusual features in our case suggest that it may be causal." Among these features were the patient's unusual bone-marrow chromosome pattern and the presence of large cells containing multiple micronucleoli. Dr. Lionel Grossbard and colleagues at Columbia...
...state like a business." What is particularly embarrassing is the fact that only after seven years and six separate audits did anyone notice anything amiss. "It was done very cleverly," said State Highway Engineer Ellis Mathes. "On the surface, the vouchers and everything looked very normal." Attorney General Robert Robson said that Turner had invented his own company name (The B.G.O. Investment Co.) and systematically diverted highway funds by means of 40 separate warrants ranging from about $3,000 to $17,500. Turner has four children and got an official salary of only...
BACKWARD TO THE FRONT OF THE DAY by James Robson. 144 pages. Doubleday...
...does not take long to realize that old Budgie is none other than God himself, posing this time as a wise, lovable friend to the mad and the innocent. Robson's message is that they would be just as well off without him. Indifferent to their suffering, he shuffles on backward, blinking at sunbeams and thinking thoughts like: "Each speck was a world just like ours and our world was only another speck dancing in someone else's old barn...
...Robson's novel begins as a chatty account of village life that has charm reminiscent of J. D. Salinger. It soon becomes a vivid nightmare world of putrefying animal corpses and menacing gangs of anonymous attackers. In the end, Backward to the Front of the Day is unsatisfying. In his rage against God, Robson stacks so much against his human characters that they topple toward death before they fully come to life...