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...later took to hard drugs, including heroin. Dr. John Riley, the village's only physician, was bullied into supplying them with drugs and forced to give them methadone when the heroin ran low. So persistent were the demands that Riley, 47, was driven to a nervous breakdown. He died of a heart attack this July...
...French organizers. The Baroness said privately -but not privately enough to keep it a secret-that the American acts were "cheap." Anne Klein observed: "This has been the worst experience of my life. When this is over we are all going to relax and have a nervous breakdown...
...various areas to the threat, or implied threat, of nuclear aggression, they consider themselves justified to take such measures as they deem necessary until the Security Council has taken measures to correct the situation. This may in part explain why the Soviets responded so firmly in October after the breakdown of the initial ceasefire in the Middle East imposed by the Security Council...
...press breakdown at our printer's shop Sunday night, Monday's Crimson is being delivered one day late. We regret the delay and any inconvenience it may have caused...
...this process, a framework arises--a group vocabulary--through which these personal problems and problems of sexual politics generally can be better understood. As remarkable as is the breakdown which often occurs in mixed groups, what is more remarkable is how little such breakdowns are understood if the group's members don't already have the verbal means to discuss their interactions. When double standards are applied, those culpable deny that their obvious self-contradictions are contradictory, sometimes contending that certain events are not really taking place...