Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shop four times a day every day so far." Other retailers are doing almost as well. For some customers, however, Manhattan's newest divertissement will never quite replace Rexalls or Walgreens. Because of a New York State law that prevents their sale in an establishment that serves alcohol, no drugs are available in Le Drugstore...
...Nelson wrote a series of articles charging Milledgeville (Ga.) Central State Hospital with using experimental drugs on mental patients without the permission or knowledge of relatives, hiring doctors who used alcohol and drugs on duty, even letting nurses perform major surgery when doctors were absent. The resulting furor ended with the resignation of Milledgeville's chief surgeon and seven other doctors. The hospital superintendent retired, and the hospital was removed from the jurisdiction of the graft-ridden public welfare department and transferred to the public health department. Nelson's Milledgeville exposé won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...several years she floated around San Francisco from coffee houses to small folk festivals, puffing a little pot and belting out Bessie Smith blues ballads (her other idol was Leadbelly) in a competent but slightly affected style. She was into drugs as well as alcohol, but troubled by the fact. By early 1965, she had pulled out and gone home to her father, mother (a registrar at a local business college), and her younger brother and sister. For two years she dabbled at college, and one way or another got enough learning to read Freud and describe herself...
...slight force of the earth's magnetic field. Some animals seem to depend upon old-fashioned topographic features, which they pick up with their own sonar. Eels, according to studies reported by Orr, have so keen a sense of smell that they could detect half a teaspoon of alcohol diluted in 42-mile-long Lake Constance...
...JULY of this year it was revealed that the Treasury Department has been conducting investigations of library cards in several American cities, including Atlanta and Milwaukee. The Internal Revenue Agents were operating under the authority of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which gives the Treasury's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division responsibility for the registration of explosives. Librarians in several cities were asked to show the cards for various books on explosives as well as books on guerrilla warfare or by Che Guevara. When librarians refused to divulge the names of borrowers of books, many agents reportedly threatened to subpoena...