Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's 30,000 junkies, 15,000 to 20,000 live in Harlem. "I was just born black, poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...
...motivational researchers. In the primitive Blue Suede Shoes era eight years ago, Elvis was first explained as father of a faintly menacing breed of children's crusaders marshaling the anti-parent instinct into a kind of teen-age Viet Cong. Later the diagnosis changed; the real rock addict was pronounced a "rhythmic obedient" whose craving for the big beat was only the expression of his frustrated wish to obey mother. Such findings were hardly helpful to the record industry in its search for a solid money-making groove. And then a new type of rock song began to climb...
...white creatures spit bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology...
...obstacles. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in 1944 that the privilege against self-incrimination applies only to verbal questions, not to compulsory physical or mental examinations. But things are changing fast. In Rochin v. California (1952), for example, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because the evidence against him was obtained by forced stomach pumping. It is anomalous, wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, "to hold that to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Richardson, 83, British architect, onetime (1955-57) president of the Royal Academy of Arts, an 18th century addict who considered modern buildings "cellular facades cloaked with vitreous indifference," believed that "nothing should be streamlined except water closets," himself eschewed electricity and telephones, entertained in wig and knee breeches and paid calls on special occasions reclining regally in a sedan chair; of heart disease, in Ampthill, Bedfordshire...