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...clear from the beginning that Shaw was innocent. Garrison's star witnesses were a heroin addict who claimed he saw Shaw and Oswald together once when he was shooting up at the lakefront; a businessman who remembered the details of conversations with Shaw after Garrison's staff hypnotized him; and an accountant who fingerprinted his children every morning to make sure the CIA hadn't stolen them during the night and substituted lookalikes to spy on him. The national and local press gave the trial heavy coverage. Garrison lost and came out looking like a fool...
...Mannix. He solves crimes with his head, like a Polish Sherlock Holmes. In last week's episode, fragments from a dead man's glasses ultimately led him to the heart of a crooked urban-renewal scheme. This week he pieces together clues from a drug addict that set him on the trail of a fellow detective turned criminal...
From now on, local communities will also handle all drug addiction cases formerly treated in two big federal drug treatment centers. Last year the center in Fort Worth, Texas was closed and this month the famed huge 38-year-old fortress-like hospital in Lexington, Ky., will shut its doors. The explosion of the addict population in the 1960s made it clear that the treatment offered in the federal facilities was not effective. Getting the addicts jobs and re-establishing them in their own neighborhoods proved to be more important than drug therapy or psychiatric training far from home...
...About ten years ago," says Author-Critic Clifton Fadiman, 69, "I began to get less interested in grownups and more interested in children." A lifelong addict-pusher of good reading for adults (Book-of-the-Month Club judge, author of The Lifetime Reading Plan), Fadiman has now set out to hook the grade-school crowd. From his hilltop home in Santa Barbara, where he is also preparing a critical history of children's literature, Fadiman is editing a brisk new magazine called Cricket...
...schedule. The MBTA system is pretty small by comparison--it only has four lines, and closes down before 1 a.m., eliminating the best hours for hanging out, but the Boston subways have a certain spirit of their own which merits the attention of even the most crazed Brooklyn BMT addict...