Word: harmless
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...Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda. But the body is also a versatile gas factory. By fermentation and similar processes, it can manufacture an excess of carbon dioxide, as well as hydrogen, methane (all odorless) and hydrogen sulfide (which...
Clouds & Sparks. The attractions are obvious enough. Heroin produces a drowsy, drifting effect; LSD contorts and sometimes expands the mind. Methedrine, which is a harmless stimulant when taken orally in small doses, turns into a kind of mega-pep dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning...
Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the Mayor of Cambridge, is up for re-election to the City Council next month. Facing a tough fight, the good Mayor three weeks ago launched a verbal fusillade at the nearest vulnerable and harmless target, the city's hippie population. It may prove successful politics, but now he is threatening to turn his useless diatribe against long hair into a more perilous experiment in illegal harassment...
...widespread is the use of quick-freeze aerosol spray for freaking out? No one really knows-yet. Hippies and college students reportedly have turned to it as a legal turn-on (the labels on the cans read "harmless and non-toxic"). At Yale, a few students have been inhaling the gas since it was introduced last month by collegians returning from the West Coast. In Medford, at least 200 high school students were using it. Literally scared sick by the McCuan tragedy, scores of them fled to family doctors and hospitals, complaining of aches, stabbing chest pains and sleeplessness. Most...
...declining the Harvard Undergraduate Council's rather harmless request for a meeting last week, the Committee on Houses has predictably stirred up exactly the sort of drawn-out discussion it wished to avoid. Dean Ford, acting as spokesman for the Committee, said its members were sick of the parictals issue; so, without a doubt, is every other member of this community...