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Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal and Unsafe | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...days San Franciscans endured burst water mains, broken-down boilers, overflowing fountains, weed-choked lawns, garbage-strewn streets and a transit stoppage that halted their cable cars and buses. But last week some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Not an Extra Penny | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...overnight stops, and relay driving (with just one driver on each stretch of the run). The coalition's other demands: on-the-job training for women; no special tests for drivers already licensed in their categories by the state (women truckers charge that the tests are used to weed out female applicants) and adjustable seats and pedals so women cannot be disqualified for being too small to drive a large truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Women Truckers | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

Benson with Kl/pper (5) 9-A Book, Arnaz 10-My Search for Patty Hearst, Weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

When Catherine Hearst, 57, took the stand, her shining blonde hair elegantly coiffed, she looked as though she were planning to go shopping at Tiffany's. Steven Weed has claimed that there was "constant tension" between mother and daughter. In the S.L.A. "interview" with Tania, she called her mother "an incredible racist" and said that "my parents were the last people in the world I would go to to talk about anything." Yet Mrs. Hearst described Patty as "a very warm and loving girl," adding, "we always did things as a family." Bailey asked if the alienated girl described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Verdict on Patty: Guilty as Charged | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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