Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S" to make final preparations for a flight then scheduled for Dec. 20. That shot was postponed until Jan. 16 because Project Mercury officials figured that mounting public pressures were hampering technicians in readying Glenn's Atlas-D booster and space capsule for safe flight. After that, in nerve-racking order, came delays caused by a faulty fuel valve in the booster, a malfunction in the cooling system of Glenn's spacesuit, a breakdown in the capsule's oxygen supply unit...
...nightmare started in the West German town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in 1954, when laboratory chemists synthesized the drug for the firm of Chemie Gruenenthal GmbH. After three years of testing with animals, thalidomide was judged so safe that it was approved for over-the-counter sale, with no prescription needed, throughout West Germany...
...powerful American social drama of the late Forties and early Fifties had stopped, and that now all the important intellectual plays are British. Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Truman Capote, the inheritors of the tradition of Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets, "deal with unnatural subjects--maybe the only safe ones to write about." McCarthysim had a damaging effect on social drama. Miss Winters said...
Predictably, Huxley compares mescaline to soma, the universal antidote to everyday existence in Brave New World,--a drug with "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol, none of the drawbacks." Like soma, mescaline is an hallucinogen and a euphoriant that is not harmful and provides a reasonably safe, extremely interesting escape from the world. But the effects of mescaline are far too capricious, much too susceptible to subtle psychological influences, and certainly too time-consuming to rank with those of Huxley's ideal drug. And with the majority that finds heaven in mescaline here is inevitably a small minority that...
While Kaufmann will probably settle for some safe first place points in the freestyle, the Crimson will enter junior John Pringle (2:08.0) in the backstroke and individual medley. Pringle has never been pushed in the backstroke, and the coaches think he could give Welch a good race. He is a clear-cut favorite to win the individual medley...