Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lapsed since Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, pledged a comprehensive report for public scrutiny on the extent of Harvard's involvement in the MK-ULTRA program. But aside from initially disclosing a Harvard connection with two projects conducted under MK-ULTRA auspices that did not entail drug experimentation, Steiner has consistently put off the fulfillment of his promise...
Mounting absenteeism. According to the Washington-based National Association of Secondary School Principals, absenteeism is now the worst problem facing teachers, ahead of poor motivation, lack of discipline, vandalism, tardiness and drug use. In Florida's Dade County (Miami), school officials trying to cut double-digit truancy rates in low-income areas have been experimenting?rather successfully?with luring kids to class with free hamburgers, Frisbees, T shirts and yo-yos donated by local businessmen. After a decade of stormy debate, there is no consensus about how schools can right the wrongs. Conservative back to basics" forces rail that...
...physician's daughter herself, Graham ministers blunt doses of good sense. About the discredited cancer drug Laetrile, she insists: "At best it is an expensive and cruel hoax. At worst it is dangerous." She rails against the phony cheerfulness of some visitors to desperately ill patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend...
While arresting a drug dealer in Coeur l'Alene, Idaho, one August night in 1972, Narcotics Agent Michael A. Caldero shot and wounded the suspect's companion, who tried to flee. He eventually recovered, the pusher was convicted, and the shooting incident went largely unquestioned-until Lewiston Tribune Reporter James E. ("Jay") Shelledy revived it a year later in a six-part series on the state drug enforcement agency...
Shelledy quoted the attorney general in charge of the drug agency and an unnamed "police expert" as calling the shooting unnecessary. Within months, the agency was reorganized, the attorney general was voted out of office, and Agent Caldero was fired...