Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strains of flu reach America about once every ten years; since no one can predict what a new virus will look like, flu immunization is a chancy business. (Since the virus changes so frequently, flu immunization is also a profitable business for a few drug companies.) Officials at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta were correct in assuming that this year, or next, or the one after a new strain of influenza would appear, but they were wrong in believing they could finally prevent a flu epidemic. The odds of predicting correctly what new strain will appear are small...
...reasons for bad discharges range from anti-war protests to problems indirectly caused or aggravated by the war, such as racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...
...anthology (Random House; $19.95). Elton John is called "a pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer Ellen Willis notes that her revolt against conventional femininity "dovetailed with a stereotype-the ballsy, one-of-the-guys chick who is a needy, vulnerable cream puff underneath." Besides such quarrying of rock egos, the book signifies that the subject itself has finally grown respectable: the anthology...
...slippers. Went into the kitchen. And died. Then Prine howls "please don't bury me in that cold, cold ground/No I'd druther have'em cut me up and pass me all around." The other songs are very nearly all just as inspired. There are paeans to rural drug use--"Illicit Smile": Please don't arrest me sir, I'm smiling because I feel no pain, not because I killed somebody--like one of you Babbitts. Probably has no meaning to you unless you used to get stoned and run pick-up trucks into trees...
...decade in development by Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, the vaccine is licensed only for clinical trials in the U.S. But the latest results, following a similarly successful test in West Germany, should hasten the day when it is sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration for any American who has been nipped by a possibly rabid animal...