Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence is not entirely conclusive. There are indications, besides, that federal authorities were making a concerted effort to get Galante's name into print. The reason: they suspect that Galante is trying to increase the Mob's already heavy involvement in narcotics. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seemed particularly interested in publicizing Galante's activities. Writes TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "A cold call a few weeks ago to DEA intelligence in New York resulted in a great deal of talk on a subject that the agency is usually rather quiet about...
...group was suffering from management, money and drug problems. Santana himself, pressured by sudden stardom was "watching the band decay on the wrong energy flow...what I was really seeking was illumination not satisfaction." Santana went to Sri Chinmoy, the Ceylonese guru who'd helped John McLaughlin. McLaughlin, whose rock-jazz had been increasingly influenced by Indian raga music, had adopted the philosophy of creating his music as an offering to a Supreme Being. Santana took similar steps towards peace and enlightenment--to the point where he wrote "God Himself is the musician." The band became increasingly jazz-oriented after...
...force of a free market, which he felt had been curtailed by the economic power of a handful of huge corporations. From 1957 until 1970, Blair was chief economist of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, and helped expose price fixing and questionable interlocking relationships in the drug and petroleum industries...
Ezekiel has gone too far, however. He has struck and killed his brother with a poker. He is also a drug addict. The notion takes some getting used to: a 48-year-old professor of humanities on a methadone maintenance program in a prison where he is serving ten years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime...
...Prison is a bureaucratic inferno where men are not beaten but left to burn in their memories. Farragut's flare periodically throughout the book. He recalls the decline of his family's fortune and their retreat into eccentricity and shabby gentility. He remembers the beginning of his drug addiction during World War II. As an infantryman in the South Pacific, he got regular rations of codeine cough medicine and Benzedrine. Drugs helped him endure a postwar world that he felt had "outstripped the human scale," and sustained him in his marriage to a beautiful, cruel woman...