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Psychologically more destructive than heroin-and now more available than marijuana-amphetamines are in many ways the most treacherous of all abused drugs. Despite the threat they pose, a recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed that 92% of the speed and pep pills in illicit traffic were manufactured by legitimate U.S. drug firms...
Pill City. Some drug companies make little effort to verify the legitimacy of customers who order amphetamines. As a test, Government investigators set up a fictitious company in the Midwest and received without question nearly every drug ordered from manufacturers. Michael Sonnenreich, deputy counsel of the Bureau of Dangerous Drugs, said that firms do not deliberately promote illicit traffic, but "there are so many loopholes in the existing drug abuse laws. Companies crank out enormous volumes of drugs, and they sell them to anybody who appears to be legitimate...
...Fellows, who are on leave from their jobs, spend the academic year in study related to their special fields or to their general interests. Hendrik L. Smith. of the New York Times Washington Bureau, who will be in the Times' Moscow bureau next year, is studying Russian and Russian History, Francois Van Aal, Associate Nieman Fellow from Radio Television Belge, and known to the other Niemans as "the Belgian Walter Cronkite." is taking American Government courses...
...managing director of the Greater Louisville Better Business Bureau, Joe D. Proctor, feels that sales pitches like Collier's will be changed one way or the other...
...head of the council, he also made a lasting impression on the Vice President, Richard Nixon. Burns left in 1956 to become president of the privately endowed National Bureau of Economic Research, but continued as Nixon's personal economic adviser. Last winter, just before being named Special Counsellor to the President, he suggested that the tax increases and spending cuts then contemplated would not be enough to contain inflation. Once ensconced in the White House, he optimistically judged in April that it would be reasonable to expect the Administration to bring the rate of inflation down...