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...become Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post. In Springfield, he relearned Lincoln Steffen's dictum that the cities are run on graft (and, now, its sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti, he learned that "the real details"--like the fact that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover...
...Federal Trade Commission, which two weeks ago concluded a two-year study of promotional lures, found that in one food-chain game that touted a 1 in 3 chance of winning, the actual odds came out to 1 in 15,373. Generally, according to the FTC, a game addict stands 3.4 chances in 1,000 of winning a prize that is worth only an average of $3.87. For those $1,000-and-up jackpots, the odds stretch out to 1 in 1.2 million...
...Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both men turns out to be the egregious Kenneth Widmerpool, whose fatuous careerism and brassbound egotism have provided veins of comedy running through all nine books. Widmerpool, an ambition addict who flourishes amidst the adversities of the rest of the world, turns up as a colonel, squeezing the epaulettes of power until the pips squeak. These exits and re-entrances emphasize that it is high time for Powell's publishers to provide a score to The Music of Time...
...Magic Bus" is about a man who takes a bus to see his girl every day, and decides to buy it. "Dogs" is about a man who meets his future wife at a race-track, and later finds that she is not the perfect mate for a dog racing addict. "Tattoo" is about two brothers who get tattooed because they decide it will make them men. "I Can See for Miles" deals with a person who can see his girl being unfaithful because he has telescopic vision like superman. The song deals with the same emotional situation as "I Heard...
Possible Biases. To some extent, the program's good showing may reflect the fact that the patients are older than the average addict and more likely to be motivated to seek a better way of life. Then too, by design, all of them are volunteers. The sample is not exactly representative: it contains proportionately more whites (48% v. 25% among addicts generally), with 33% Negroes and 18% Puerto Ricans. Even with allowances for bias, the results are so good that an impartial study group set up at Columbia University calls them "most encouraging" and recommends expansion of the program...