Word: switzerland
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First developed in Switzerland in 1938, LSD 25 has been much neglected until recently. Unlike mescaline, which induces a series of euphoric dreams and images, or pentothal, which merely leads the patient through mental and emotional playbacks of childhood scenes as he becomes semicomatose, LSD 25 enables the patient to re-experience his past without loss of consciousness, and calmly watch himself in the process. This is, roughly, like the ordinary dreamer who knows he is dreaming while he is dreaming. The patient injected with LSD 25 can later recall everything that took place in minute detail...
From Scotland's Kirk of Shotts down to Rome, eight nations were tied together this week in a European TV network. The first image seen simultaneously in the eight Western European countries was an offshore view of the storied Castle of Chillon in Switzerland, which has been immortalized by Byron's poem and by untold thousands of tourist postcards...
That same evening, viewers in Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland also saw a 50-minute program telecast from the Vatican, including views of St. Peter's, of Michelangelo's Pietà in the basilica and of the Raphael rooms in the Vatican Museum. The show concluded in the Hall of the Consistory (where few viewers would ordinarily be permitted in person) for a brief address by the Pope in five languages...
...River) Robeson, 56, and to protest the State Department travel ban that just keeps him rolling along in the U.S. only. Among the loudly cheered highlights of the rally was a cabled tribute to Robeson from aging (65) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie, who planned to carve up the swag among peace lovers in London, Geneva and Vienna, was "very...
They are opposed by Bulova, Gruen and about 100 other U.S. watch companies which rely on Swiss works. The free-trade argument: Switzerland consistently buys more here than she sells ($458 million in the U.S. favor since the 1937 trade agreements...