Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes; 14, all but one of them Negroes, were under 21 years old. Bullets slew 25 of the victims. Unknown assailants took the lives of eight; nine were slain by private citizens; police killed 13. Ten died in fires or from inhaling smoke and three from other causes. In contrast with last summer's bloodbath, not one killing was blamed on the National Guard or the federal troops who were called into the cities...
...increasing doses, as is the case with the true narcotics-opium, its refined extracts (heroin, morphine' codeine) and their synthetic substitutes. Additionally, Dr. Mikuriya reported, cannabis is so nearly nonpoisonous that to kill one mouse requires 40,000 times the dose that makes a man high. By contrast, 20 times the relaxant dose of alcohol can kill...
...marijuana smoking is temporary impairment of visual and muscular coordination. As for mental effects, a few psychiatrists regard marijuana as a mild hallucinogen or mild psychedelic, but they are virtually unanimous in insisting that they have never seen a severe illness (psychosis) brought on by marijuana-in sharp contrast with the frequency of such breakdowns among people on LSD. Dr. Duke Fisher, of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says: "When normal people take marijuana, there's no adverse reaction. When pre-psychotic people take it, there can be a serious psychotic reaction, but then marijuana is only a catalyst...
...Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker and theatergoer will always feel a special tingle of sentiment from the opening bars of Give My Regards to Broadway, but the contrast with the squalor of Times Square now is painful...
...group." According to a Stanford study by Psychology Professor Thomas W. Harrell, it is also the group best suited to business careers. "It is true," says Harrell, "that few of the best scholars enter business. But then I'm not sure that business needs the best scholars, in contrast to those who are the best organizational leaders...