Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prestige Sound. The script is then delivered to a production group usually an independent agency. In the casting process, actors are chosen for the "authentic look," Jack Gilford, for instance, seems typecast as the conniving Cracker Jack addict, and Lou Jacobi looks every bit the beleaguered traveling salesman in a Hertz ad. Narrators Ed Herlihy for Kraft Foods and Alexander Scourby for Eastern Air Lines are prized for their ability to project "appetite appeal" and a "prestige sound." Just as important is the preparation of catchy music, which may even become a bestseller on the pop charts...
...Hasty, hysterical legislation only promises to leave the law-abiding American more exposed to the armed criminal and addict. We already have plenty of laws on the books; laws do not automatically prevent crimes. Trained gun owners are the answer to the gun problem...
...sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing, as the President declared, "the demented, the deranged, the hardened criminal and the convict, the addict and the alcoholic" to order weapons by mail with no questions asked...
...HATFUL OF RAIN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Sandy Dennis, Peter Falk, Michael Parks and Herschel Bernardi star in the TV version of Michael Gazzo's Broadway play about a drug addict's attempts to kick the habit...
...posters in campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former addict to help him work with students. The arrested stu dents, most of whom have pleaded not guilty, face the double jeopardy of both campus and county discipline. They will be tried before student-run courts, and those charged with selling drugs face suspension from class. The maximum criminal penalty...