Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it took over some abandoned German positions during World War II, the U.S. Signal Corps stumbled on a discovery that was destined to revolutionize the life and times of that hardy American hobbyist, the hi-fi addict. The signalmen found magnetic tape and equipment superior to any then developed in the U.S. What they wrought back home by their find was evident last week at the Chicago World's Fair of Music and Sound. Tape is the hottest thing in hi-fi today, and the tape industry is wooing the public this fall as it never has before...
...home, today's hi-fi addict can buy extra-thin tape capable of cramming eight hours of monaural sound onto one tape reel-all of Beethoven's nine symphonies plus his five piano concertos. For his car he can buy "magic memory" machines designed to fit over the transmission hump and record his dictation en route or music received on the car radio. There are devices on which six people can listen simultaneously to the 1812 Overture on six different earphones at six different volumes; there are "perpetual motion" tape machines that, once started, spew forth repetitious music...
Operation Kindness has 2,000 youngsters at work in San Francisco, 3,800 in Philadelphia. In Manhattan, a towering varsity end from the University of Pittsburgh has worked 16 hours a day to keep tough kids from becoming drug addicts and alcoholics. A volunteer for the Young Life Campaign, Bob Long, 21, can proudly look back on such experiences as the 14 nighs he spent helping one addict to kick the habit. "My man here stayed with me," says Long's grateful protege. "He's my 205-pound guardian angel...
Because of its vigilance, the bureau has considerably arrested addiction and narcotics racketeering over the years. In 1930, when Anslinger was named head of the newly formed bureau, one out of every 1,070 Americans was an addict; today, the proportion is one in 4,000. Thanks also to Anslinger's strict enforcement philosophy, addiction in youngsters -once a terrifying trend-has been severely curtailed. By cracking down unmercifully on pushers who found ready markets among young people (and by pressing through Congress in 1956 an optional death penalty for pushers who sell narcotics to minors), the bureau...
...next year; the other three men got 199 years each. Over the nine years since then. Crump has steadfastly insisted on his innocence, maintaining that police used brutality to wring a false confession out of him. Because of involved legal technicalities, the fact that Tillman was a known dope addict, and Crump's charge of a forced confession, he has managed to stave off the executioner by carrying his appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, gaining 41 continuances and one retrial (he was convicted again) and evading 14 dates with the chair-one just seven hours...