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Apollo 8's historic flight had a thundering and auspicious beginning The mighty, 36-story Saturn 5 rocket lifted from tis pad a negligible 65 milliseconds after its scheduled 7:51 am launch time Propelled by an awesome 7,500,000 lbs. of thrust, it soared into the clear Florida sky over Cape Kennedy Two hours and 20 minutes later, as Apollo whirled in orbit around the earth, came the anxiously awaited word to make the translunar insertion-the ma neuver that would send the vehicle to ward the moon...
Instead of using a psychedelic setting in a dimly lit pad, the researchers ran their tests in a square but comfortable laboratory. They rolled their own cigarettes of three kinds: one of low-strength marijuana, one of high-strength and a third of male hemp stalks, which gave off the same odor but contained none of the psychoactive ingredient. The subjects smoked two reefers within a few minutes in each three-hour session, which included both psychological and physiological tests. The study was double-blind?neither the testers nor the smokers knew, until afterward, which were the dummies and which...
...psychiatrist and I were posed in the Couch-Chair-Say-The-First-Thing Motif. He was bent over his pad like a dead Hebraic scholar, but his mind and pen were spring and steel, ready to snap...
Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
...sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting. Attendants pad back and forth, visiting silently with guests or passing out toys: slide projectors, mirrors, kaleidoscopes, helium-filled balloons. A long-haired girl ties four of the balloons to her tresses and parades serenely along the walkway, looking like the Wicked Witch of the West...