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Another variety of inside-dopester wants to know the inside dope because it helps him get status and approval in his peer group. Inside-dopesters frequently change the content of their politics in response to changed fads in their peer groups...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...fresh ones were "a put-up job." Said a Fordham official: "Young Thorne was a fine athlete, a good student and deeply religious. He served Mass every morning in the school chapel. We would know it here, I assure you, if he had been a drinker or dope user...
...monthly-and he spent $2,500 on a two-week European trip last year. But he was so broke that sometimes he sold a pint of blood for $10. He ran up big bills at clothing stores, but his wardrobe was small; some said he peddled clothing to buy dope. Although he died with a nearly empty wallet, an open fight soon developed over the fortune...
When the Wall Street Journal ran sketches and a dope story on 1955-model cars, General Motors protested by canceling all its ads and putting an embargo on all news to America's No. 1 business newspaper (TIME, June 28). The W.S.J. stood its ground, insisted it would continue to dig up news about G.M. despite the ban. Last week G.M. and the W.S.J. announced a truce. General Motors, explained G.M. President Harlow H. Curtice, has been interested only in protecting its "property rights," i.e., its ownership of copyrighted blueprints of new models. "It was never our intention...