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...this, methaqualone is addictive. Unlike insomniacs who abide by their doctor's prescriptions, abusers develop a tolerance for the drug and begin taking increasingly larger doses. Then they may become addicted. "Resistance can develop after only four days," says Mike, a 20-year-old San Franciscan. "Then it takes four to do what one used to do for you. The withdrawals are much worse than heroin, with the same kind of convulsion as in an epileptic...
Wine is hardly a new phenomenon in the U.S. The Spanish missionaries who brought European civilization to the New World also brought European grapes. Before the U.S. was a nation, Franciscan Padre Junipero Serra, founder of nine Spanish missions in California, was making wine in San Diego. After the Gold Rush in 1849, a Hungarian adventurer named Agoston Haraszthy brought 200,000 premium European grapevines to California. In the 1880s an epidemic of the root disease, phylloxera, wiped out nearly all of Europe's vineyards. Thousands of American rootstocks, with their phylloxera-resistant native roots, were shipped over...
...Others arrived in packed buses and trains. At least 150,000 strong, they pushed shoulder to shoulder past the rusty barbed-wire fences into the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp, where 4,000,000 died during the Nazi hell. The pilgrims had come to honor one of those dead, a Franciscan friar named Maximilian Kolbe who had stepped forward one day in 1941 to take the place of a family man selected for execution...
...avenger hunts down the culprits, who are holed up in a Franciscan monastery. They have forced the monks to dress up as women, and have bloodied their asses. The avenger kills the culprits, castrates their leader, and wins the leader's captive women. Before he is killed the leader asks the man-in-black. "Who are you to judge me?" "I am god," is, of course, the reply...
JOHN MILLER, 24, a lanky, mod San Franciscan who sports candy-striped bell-bottoms on the links, began hitting balls into a driving net in his garage at the age of five. This season he belted his way to a second-place finish in the Masters and third in the Jacksonville Open; currently, he is among the top 20 money winners, with 1971 earnings, so far, of $55,849. An elder in the Mormon Church, he attended Brigham Young University but quit before graduating to join the tour in 1969. "A college degree," he explains, "is not going to help...