Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last 2½ years; what am I going to do?" Another caller wants to wipe up the Viet Cong, the next discusses self-hypnotism, a third knocks himself out with his own imitation of Bobby Kennedy, and then along in the wee small hours comes a dope addict, who swears he would have committed suicide long ago if Larry had not made him feel that he "belonged to a family...
...CRIMSON straw poll, 86 per cent of the Class of '65--and the College as a whole--went for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater. With the outcome apparent, the College watched the campaign with the doggedness that a TV addict brings to a repeat of his favorite show. Teddy Kennedy left his unknown opponent Howard Whitmore for dead, and he might as well have been for all the difference it made, as Teddy won by a million votes...
...this suggests that narcotics workers are face-to-face with a second monkey on the addict's back. Sorrowfully, Brown admits to being stumped on the problem of prying Mom loose. He tried group therapy to get the mothers interested in their sons' problems, admits it was "a disaster-all they did was feel sorry for themselves." Now he is campaigning to have the sons leave home, but he finds Mom just as tough a campaigner. A few weeks ago, one mother searched through more than 50 rooming houses on Manhattan's 14th Street until she turned...
...Bugs. He is not the only addict with unaddled grey matter. Near Georgia Tech, a drive-in-eatery caled The Varsity draws the most viewers with its four tube rooms equipped with desk-armed chairs to encourage eating. And the type The Varsity mostly draws? "It's the fat boy who's a real brain; he's there all the time," says one senior. Of course, as a University of Minnesotan sniffs, TV is also "for the 'C-C-ers' and down. The rest are too busy with the books to be socked down before...
...kept, from lab to drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order sales of firearms to individuals (Lee Harvey Oswald got his assassination weapon through a mail-order house) and restrict the importation of surplus military weapons. - Provide...