Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should dope addicts get their dope free, from the Government? This course was suggested, as a way to kill the illegal drug traffic by extracting its profit motive, at hearings held in Manhattan last week by Texas Senator Price Daniel's Narcotics Subcommittee. The proposal split the experts-doctors and law enforcers-right down the middle. After the hearings they were farther apart than ever before. About all they had been able to agree on were the basic facts: ¶ Addiction is a growing, not a receding problem, 40 years after the Harrison Act made the peddling of narcotics...
Five witnesses told the subcommittee that the remedy was to let addicts temporarily get their dope free, or at cost, from public clinics, thus eliminating the narcotics black market. For the New York Academy of Medicine, a physicians' public-service group, Dr. Hubert S. Howe presented a bold program patterned on that used in Britain (which claims to have no more than 400 known addicts and no appreciable black market). Hospitals, said Dr. Howe, should examine, classify and treat addicts, then refer them to specially licensed doctors who would continue treatment. The most drastic break with current U.S. practice...
Four Paris Fun. "Dream Street" is booming because Columnist Sylvester, unlike most of his competitors, lays no claim to omniscience, peddles no phony inside dope, and conducts no esoteric feuds. He cheerfully admits that "I have no pipeline to the Kremlin and no idea what Congress is going to do." He thinks a Broadway column should be "entertaining, give people a laugh." To do so, he serves his readers a dry Manhattan-four-parts fun to one-part reporting. Now a balding 48, Sylvester covers a bright-light beat that ranges from the East Side Chinese Laundromat called "Helpee Selfee...
...semifinal, against Seixas, Rosewall looked even better than he did playing for the cup. Vic never had a chance, and he seemed to know it. All he could do was make a gentlemanly speech about losing to a better player. It was Hoad who first upset the dope. Facing a rejuvenated Trabert, he took three games and then fell apart. He gave the match away...
...Civil War, Phenix City, Ala.-its name was Lively in those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed in the vice factories-gambling dens, brothels, dope parlors-that lined Phenix City's 14th and Dillingham Streets. By night the population doubled, and most of the steady customers came from Fort Benning, the U.S. Army's training camp across the Chattahoochee. When the boys didn't come to Sin City, the city went...