Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bennies & Goof balls. As increasing evidence of teen-age addiction is uncovered, a counterrevolution is beginning. Colleges, universities and high schools are suddenly eager for effective antidrug literature. Authorities agree that the young pre-addict is the one to zero in on. The problem is how to reach him. The new federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, which, with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, recently co-sponsored seven regional conferences, discovered that the difficulty most often cited by students and educators alike was lack of communication: today's teenagers, rebelling against adult authority, turn...
...Narcotics, Why Not?, another documentary now being widely circulated, the camera focuses on a young boy as he breathes deeply from a paper bag full of airplane glue, then leans back and lets the bag drop from his limp hands; another shot shows police pulling a dazed addict from behind the wheel of a smashed automobile...
...Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus sideshow. In a hearing to determine whether retired Businessman Clay Shaw, 54, should be tried on charges of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to murder the late President, "Big Jim" produced only two prosecution witnesses. One was a confessed heroin addict. The other was a young insurance salesman whose impeccable clothing concealed a mind in considerable disarray and whose memory had to be jogged by means of hypnosis. Yet their testimony was enough, in the view of a three-judge panel in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, to establish "probable cause...
...doesn't take much luck for a man to become an addict. Jim Watterson, 31, an Atlanta luggage salesman, has been detecting for a year. "If anyone had ever told me I'd be excited about finding some rusty iron in the ground, I'd have told them they were crazy," he says. Yet he was at the Blockade Runners last week to show off his weekend treasures -some shell fragments, a pistol ball and a ramrod...
...property worth an estimated $600,000 near Tan Son Nhut Airport. Go's wealth, it was said, came from payoffs by officers who wanted safe sinecures and from his collection of up to $3,400 apiece from wealthy draft dodgers. Go's wife is a poker addict, and Saigon gossips delight in repeating the remark that she made after dropping $8,500 at the table: "I lost a dozen draftees." Moreover, Co presented a constant threat to Ky as a power around whom dissidents could gather...