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...spotless Basel laboratories of the Swiss drug company Sandoz A.G. a short, trim scientist of 52 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...
Amid a clutter of flasks and tubes, beakers and retorts in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride...
...most violent opponent in the area was Mrs. Charles Sandoz, who listed automobiles of the estimated 120 new families and the "desperately cheap houses for such a nice neighborhood" among her objections...
Although Hillel was stopped, Mrs. Sandoz said, "President Pusey looked determined. I don't know if we can stop...
This novel by Nebraska's Mari Sandoz trails Milt the Tom-Walker and his descendants for 80-odd years into the future. It is practically three books in one: like Miss Sandoz' Old Jules, a character study; like her Slogum House, a family chronicle; like her Capital City, a crankily "liberal" political tract. Small shakes as a novel, it is long on period history, melodrama, local color and wondrously rowdy soldier, sod-hut and ranch-house talk...