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Miller's strongest critics will not buy that, and there is a growing clamor in the state for more lockups. Miller himself has been attacked for being a poor administrator. A legislative audit of his tenure produced 334 pages documenting mismanagement. Miller is alleged to have spent $65,000 without the legislature's go-ahead, and to have left behind $600,000 in unpaid bills...
...other experts argue that the controls have been far too lax. Dr. Robert L. DuPont, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, notes that there were at least 800 methadone-related deaths last year involving "street" methadone-a fact the authors ignored. Thus there may be increasing clamor for other ways of dealing with the nation's estimated half a million heroin addicts. Among them: a new crackdown on dealers and "cold-turkey" detoxification of addicts-a tough but effective tactic (TIME, June 19,1972) that practically wiped out heroin addiction in Japan...
...Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay there and write and romp with his grandchildren, the clamor for him to be President might be overwhelming. He cannot do that...
...other way, he lashes out with his hands, or his feet, or the chain. The crowd identifies deeply with him. Seeing themselves threatened by unsympathetic laws, their their police handcuffed by the Suprem Court, their neighborhoods surrounded by hostile forces, the people in the crowd clamor for Bruno to rise from his stupor in the corner, to turn and savagely destroy the alien monster behind him. More than mere sources of pleasureable violence, Bruno and Koloff become, for the fifteen minutes they are in the ring, symbols of the real wishes and frustrations of the crowd...
Behind the clamor and publicity surrounding the recent primaries, many members of the Harvard faculty are playing a quiet role in helping the major Democratic candidates define issues in the current presidential campaign...