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...Stern, 64, the sportscaster whose fanciful anecdotes ("And that little Italian boy with the baseball bat is now the Pope") earned him the nickname "Aesop of the Airways"; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A 1935 auto accident cost him a leg and made him a "legal" morphine addict for nearly 20 years, but Stern climbed to the top in radio and then TV sports coverage. His career crumbled when he suffered a nervous breakdown on the air while broadcasting the 1956 Sugar Bowl game for ABC-TV. He then kicked drugs and made a comeback in 1959. Recently...
...hazards of LSD, addressed chiefly to his roommate Dave Bizak, is beginning to reach a far wider audience. It is incorporated into the sound track of a new educational film that shuns the usual dull recital of facts about drugs in favor of a firsthand story about one addict's innermost feelings...
Because the particular problems of a labor camp inmate, like the particular problems of a heroin addict, are not like any other predicament they are especially difficult to portray. Solzhenitsyn conveys the prisoners' destitution by alternating between dead pan description of bodily pain and cowering before nameless authorities, and emphasis on the miniscule occurrences that bring relief from suffering. Ivan finds a hacksaw blade, gets a little tobacco, and uses his favorite spoon. These few moments in Ivan's day when he feels he can do something that he wants to do punctuate the bleak narrative description of camp routine...
...Electric Company jolts along at breakneck pace, acharge with knockout graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
...ages of ten and 40. Once the new procedure was instituted, the number of deaths attributed to drugs soared, and during the last six months of 1970, the coroner identified 42 of these deaths as resulting from overdose. This pushed the yearly overdose rate to 84 and sent the addict census climbing...