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...second case of anti-Big Boy politics, the voters of Florida overwhelmingly approved a new state corporate income tax proposed by Democratic Governor Reuben Askew. This came despite massive efforts made against the tax by Florida banks and corporations, including the DuPont Company. The banks went so far as to enclose a piece of anti-tax campaign literature in every bank statement mailed out in the state shortly before the election. The voters refused to respond to the pressure...
...Robert DuPont of Washington's Narcotics Treatment Administration reports this new math of addiction in a New England Journal of Medicine article. Like most major U.S. cities, Washington is experiencing an alarming heroin epidemic. The number of narcotic arrests in the city rose by 462% between 1967 and 1970; drug-related crimes, such as robbery, theft and prostitution, also increased dramatically. In 1967 a total of 21 Washingtonians were known to have succumbed to heroin overdoses, and using the ratio of 200 addicts per overdose, officials estimated the city's addict population then at 4,200. The figure...
...even this depressing statistic was optimistic, DuPont believes, because officials now have evidence that many overdose deaths were undetected. In July 1970 the District of Columbia coroner began including a complete drug-screening test in all autopsies performed on persons between the ages of ten and 40. Once the new procedure was instituted, the number of deaths attributed to drugs soared, and during the last six months of 1970, the coroner identified 42 of these deaths as resulting from overdose. This pushed the yearly overdose rate to 84 and sent the addict census climbing...
...DuPont's report may have broad implications for authorities in other U.S. cities. Officials in New York City, who base their figures heavily on police, hospital and treatment-program records rather than on the kind of screening now performed in the capital, estimate that there are 150,000 heroin addicts in the nation's largest city. Washington's experience suggests that the New York figure...
...leisurely dinner at the time the trainer spent his money. He returned from his meal to borrow a flashlight and inspect his new acquisition in a darkened stall. The highlight came Thursday, when a three-way bidding contest for a bay son of Buckpasser ended with Mrs. Marion duPont Scott the victor: price, $235,000. While the auctions offer a newcomer like Taub a way to break into racing, most of the Saratoga yearlings are sold to barely more than a hundred regular customers -owners with established stables and breeders looking to diversify their bloodstock...