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...both a physical and emotional illness, but doctors rarely get to treat it and can do virtually nothing to prevent it. In the U.S., prevention is left to law enforcement officers, and addicts go from court to jail. This is all wrong, says New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh, 48, who from the bench has studied the sordid side of narcotics law enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues...
Precisely at 3 p.m. in a slate grey, glass-fronted, six-story building on Moscow's Pushkin Square, the subeditors and department heads of Izvestia (Information) trooped into the office of Editor in Chief Konstantin A. Gubin for the planyorka, or editorial conference. At the same time, 14 blocks north, Pavel A. Satyukov, editor in chief of Pravda (Truth), Moscow's other big morning paper, summoned the top members of his staff. There was no debate over policy. There was some debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions...
...Harold S. Geneen, 49, resigned as executive vice president of Raytheon Co. to become president and chief executive officer of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., succeeding Edmond...
...chairman until his retirement in July. Geneen's resignation came as a surprise to Raytheon President Charles Francis Adams and a shock to Wall Street. Geneen simply walked into Adams' office and announced: "I'm resigning." Company insiders say Geneen wanted Adams' spot as chief executive, realized that Adams was not about to yield. Geneen's resignation sent Raytheon's stock down 6½ points, touching off a wave of selling of other electronic issues. Reason: in his three years with Raytheon, Geneen, who came from a top post at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
...from producing, not from refining and marketing. Aramco also announced the election of Thomas Barger, 49, who was vice president and assistant to the president before, as president to succeed Norman Hardy, who was named board chairman. ¶ Avard E. Fuller. 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Fuller Brush Co., to succeed his older brother. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed in a sports-car accident. Born in Hartford, Conn., home of Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been...