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Bachelor Paul, 25 (his favorite "bird" is 21-year-old Actress Jane Asher), is a movie addict, loves "the look of London," tools around town in a spiffy blue Aston Martin DB 5. He lives in a high-walled house in the city's prosperous St. John's Wood neighborhood -oddly furnished, for a Beatle, in a tastefully quaint style, including an old-fashioned lace tablecloth on the dining-room table-and has daily bouts of "bashing" at the piano, which he has never quite learned to play...
Other active programs of a more preventive nature include a youth project, with picnics and social meetings, and a kind of Addicts Anonymous, run by ex-Pusher and Addict "Sonny" Long, which sponsors meetings twice a week for self-help discussion...
...committed to directing The American Male, an irreverent look at the species by European women, and Tom Swift, a satirical treatment of derring-do in the early 1900s. Last week he began flexing his joints for a dancing stint on the Jackie Gleason Show. No barbell and wheat-germ addict, he simply runs around the block every morning, gradually increasing the laps until he feels the urge to go soft-shoeing all over the neighborhood...
...alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names on its part-time employment roster, and Huckleberry's (homes for runaways). In Los Angeles, an outfit called Kerista, founded three months ago by a former heroin addict named John Thomsen, provides pads and proteins for homeless hippies...
...detector tests, said NBC, had cast doubt on the testimony of two key witnesses: Vernon Bundy, a 29-year-old narcotics addict, and Perry Raymond Russo, 26, an insurance salesman. A test given Bundy "indicated he was lying," said NBC Anchorman Frank McGee, and "New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Charles Ward was informed of this." Though Ward told Garrison that "in view of the lie-detector test, Bundy should not be allowed to testify," he was overruled...