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Angel dust is the most common name. It is also known as goon, busy bee, crystal, hog, elephant tranquilizer and superjoint. By any name, phencyclidine (PCP) is the most dangerous drug to hit the streets since LSD became widely available a decade ago. Its use is growing rapidly; a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study found that nearly a third of the young patients reporting to drug-treatment centers have tried PCP and one-fifth used it regularly. Angel dust has been linked to hundreds of murders, suicides and accidental deaths-214 last year in the Detroit area alone...
From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...
Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...
Bellows' dustups with Allbritton accelerated in May when the Texan installed Sacramento Bee General Executive James H. Smith as president. "He looks upon a paper as a money machine," says a former Bee colleague. Though the Star's editorial staff had already been sliced from 286 to 242 before Smith arrived, the new president this month ordered a 10% staff cut. Fed up, Bellows resigned...
Bellows was first offered the Herald-Examiner editorship last May, but refused it. Dale also sounded out eight other candidates, including Esquire Editor Clay Felker and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch. When Dale heard of Bellows' friction with Star President Smith, he renewed his offer, and Bellows accepted. The price: a reported $100,000-a-year salary and a $500,000 addition to the Herald-Examiner editorial budget...