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Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
...pusher" (retail peddler) of narcotics is under irresistible pressure to win fresh converts to addiction. Each addict, in turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...
Five witnesses told the subcommittee that the remedy was to let addicts temporarily get their dope free, or at cost, from public clinics, thus eliminating the narcotics black market. For the New York Academy of Medicine, a physicians' public-service group, Dr. Hubert S. Howe presented a bold program patterned on that used in Britain (which claims to have no more than 400 known addicts and no appreciable black market). Hospitals, said Dr. Howe, should examine, classify and treat addicts, then refer them to specially licensed doctors who would continue treatment. The most drastic break with current U.S. practice...
...Producer Otto Preminger, working on Nelson Algren's Man with the Golden Arm (about a drug addict), announced that he may release his film without the Production Code seal. Explained one Hollywood observer: "You can't reduce a narcotics addict to an offbeat type...
...satisfactorily, and his craggily handsome face is tanned and as well-creased as an heirloom Gladstone bag. Goodie gave up smoking after he got ulcers; instead, he chews up to two packs of Doublemint gum a day. He drinks sparingly, and, like many Californians, he is a health-food addict. One of his favorite beverages: cabbage juice...