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...fact, I missed most of that ludicrous Mets victory. You see, one of my roommates purchased a pinball machine (an early sixties Gottlieb model called Olympics), and I'm becoming an addict. The thwack of cowhide against a Louisville Slugger just couldn't seem to compete with the clack of the free game as the shiny silver ball thanks and dings its way about a maze of gaudy bumpers and bizarre pictures...
Personally, I've never come across an alcoholic-or a drug addict or a car thief -who didn't start by drinking milk in his childhood...
...help anyone as long as he's not an addict," said Callender's successor, Edward Carpenter, 43, a veteran math teacher. He alternately cajoled, encouraged and threatened his pupils...
...former dude ranch outside Tucson became Maranatha House two years ago, and now houses 40 young evangelists and draws 600 people to weekly services. At Virginia Beach, Va., under-25s predominate in the congregation of 1,200 at robust Rock Church; Pentecostalist Pastor John Gimenez is a former heroin addict from Spanish Harlem with a sixth-grade education...
...Walker while he was awaiting trial, and he told me he expected to be acquitted. They had a good idea of who really did it, he said. It was a heroin addict who had left for the South, someone who looked a lot like Walker. He told me he had been forced to give up his job after the arrest, but that he planned to go back to school this September. He was giving up football. He wanted to teach and coach at Nether Providence...