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...GAMBLIN' MAN (333 pp.)-Marl Sandoz-Clarkson N. Potter...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...
...Author Sandoz reconstructs the story from old diaries and memoirs, Cozad-man and town-prospered despite plagues of hungry insects, through dust storms and snowstorms, despite rampaging long-horn herds and quick-trigger cowprods. By 1882 he had harvested a fortune of $300,000, and raised two spunky sons. But black-tempered John Cozad was too powerful for his own good-and power tends to corrupt those who lack, as well as those who wield it. Settler jealousy festered into hatred. When Cozad, in patent self-defense, gunned down a knife-flashing enemy, he had to skip town to avoid...
...many-colored recall of events dating back to the first year of life, and the accelerated recovery of about half the patients, was the use, in combination with orthodox psychotherapy, of one of the most potent drugs known to man: lysergic acid diethylamide. Trade-named Delysid by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, it is usually known by its early lab designation, LSD-25 (TIME, June...
...Sandoz will release psilocybin only to highly reputable medical investigators. To them, it means that they can now use a third chemically pure substance-in addition to LSD-25 and mescaline-to induce controllable symptoms like those of uncontrolled mental illness. From such studies they hope to find chemical cures...