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...like a trip from Sodom to Gomorrah. Before he sailed from the U.S., Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, had ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said...
...long way from being Santa Barbara's mother of the year. Estranged from her husband, by whom she has one child, she has lately been living with another man, by whom she has a second child. Not only is her lover, Joseph Sanchez, a narcotics addict, but last month Nancy pleaded guilty to the charge of being in a place (Sanchez's apartment) where narcotics were unlawfully used...
Malcolm X had been a plmp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His cospel was hatred: "Your babies will get pollo" he cried to the 'white devils'." His credo was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...
...husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago's American: MURDERER NABBED ON DOPE CHARGE...
...people you never heard of. Howard Nemerov '41, who teaches at Bennington, wrote genuinely evocative prose as an undergraduate; in "The Native in the World," he indulges in self-examination and self-pity which is utterly unsophisticated by most standards. His hero, John Bradshaw, has become a drug addict, sleeps 20 hours at one time, and is convinced that...