Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bugging. The court has agreed to rule on whether seamy, sex-oriented publications and movies may properly be banned for juveniles. Another case asks whether a chronic alcoholic can constitutionally be jailed for public drunkenness. The court will have to mull over the traditional judicial reluctance to interfere with prison administration when it reviews a federal court order to desegregate Alabama jails and prisons. It will also decide whether prohibition of draft-card burning is unconstitutional (as the First Circuit Court of Appeals has held) or constitutional (as the Second and Eighth have held...
...mighty Buckpasser. Soon after the race, Trainer Eddie Neloy announced that the strapping horse would run no more, would retire to stud in Kentucky. It seemed a sound decision. Since early last year, Buckpasser has been afflicted by painful cracks in his right forehoof; this year, the condition became chronic, and without making excuses, said Neloy, "it definitely compromised his abilities in the Woodward...
...comes from three things. First, hobo. Second, the combination of hippie and bum. Third, from Life Buoy soap. Remember that commercial with the foghorn blowing B-O, B-O?" To Hayes hip-bo's are the ragged tail-enders of the hippie movement, the floaters without money. "There are chronic drug and narcotic users," he charges...
...greatest step forward since the creation of the IMF" 23 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H. It was also a considerable personal triumph for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had to overcome the fears of skeptical central bankers that the U.S. would use S.D.R. to cover up its chronic payments deficit...
...that the A.M.A. has concluded that, "A blood alcohol concentration of .05% will definitely impair the driving ability of some individuals. At a concentration of .10%, all individuals are definitely impaired." The recommended statutory limit "defies common sense," writes Campbell, by being set at a level where even a chronic alcoholic's driving ability is seriously hampered...