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...devoured westerns. J.F.K. was a Bond addict. What does Lyndon read? When repeatedly pressed by a newsman during the 1964 campaign, the President unenthusiastically produced a much unthumbed copy of the speeches of William Jennings Bryan. Recently, however, with no prompting at all, Johnson has been touting the L.B.J. Selection-of-the-Century: The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Britain's Barbara Ward. It sells for a dollar in paperback, its 159 pages largely devoted to the problems of Kikuyus and Kazakhs. Yet, avows the President, "I read it like I do the Bible...
...promising new treatment that permits heroin addicts to kick the habit was reported last week by two New York City physicians. It involves switching from heroin, which can cost the addict $25 or more a day-and is almost certain to involve him in crime -to methadone, a relatively harmless drug that costs 10? for a daily dose. Methadone's only significant side effect is constipation...
...Institute and Dr. Marie Nyswander of Manhattan General Hospital report that after considering other drugs as heroin substitutes, they hit upon methadone, a synthetic painkiller made from coal-tar extracts and marketed by Eli Lilly & Co. as Dolophine. A short course of methadone, the doctors knew, would ease the addict's first pangs of withdrawal from heroin. But they also knew that more than 80% of "cured" addicts promptly relapsed, and they wondered whether continued treatment with methadone would keep them off their "horse...
Part of Cation's popularity rests, to be sure, on the habits of the Civil War buff, who cannot resist buying everything. The addict knows all there is to know about the Civil War, and impatiently awaits the next title so that he can begin the exhilarating task of exposing the author's−any author's−bad judgment. Catton too is a buff; more buff, perhaps, than pedant. And because he is, he makes an ideal guide...
...something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America-worse than alcohol...