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...Mickey Finn ploy? Yes, but the visitor had fallen victim to a new and dangerous twist. In the past two years, New York hustlers have drugged scores of affluent-looking men (and a few women) not with the usual chloral hydrate-a sedative that simply makes a person drunk more quickly-but with scopolamine. This nervous-system depressant is normally used as a preoperative drug. It is also an ingredient in some prescription eye drops...
...Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in normal life." But Chaplin has little sympathy for Lily, who ignores love in favor of a convenient marriage and who snuffs herself out with chloral after her reputation is compromised. Says Chaplin, who for 13 years has lived uncompromisingly with Spanish Director Carlos Saura: "I like playing her. I wouldn't want to live next door...
Offers Refused. The three teen-agers told police that Weinstein had once given them $100 to kill a student, which they refused to do, and four other times begged them to murder students whom he had drugged. Weinstein used chloral hydrate (knockout drops) disguised in mustard and spread on hamburgers to drug his young friends, said the boys. He had also bragged to them of killing a student earlier in the year and burying his body in a cellar...
...Chloral hydrate...
...psychiatric ward). Each day, doctors examined him and drew blood samples for testing. This week no definite signs of radiation injury had appeared, but it was too soon to be sure. In any case, Johnny's back-room lab, from which illegal stocks of barbiturates and chloral hydrate were confiscated, was closed indefinitely...