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...sense of mission and plain boredom have contributed to a heavy increase in the use of drugs. In one survey of 3,500 men, 46% admitted to some level of drug use. High-grade hashish imported from the Middle East or North Africa is easily available at $1.25 a gram (v. up to $15 a gram in the U.S.). Although heavy hash users rarely become violent, they often wind up in the stockade as a result of apathy and loss of memory that make them incapable of obeying orders...
...Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal. She had to go to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room, where the staff performed what Piemme terms a "hashishectomy." Though...
...free psychiatric counseling in Amsterdam, free beds through Infor Jeunes (a voluntary youth service organization) in Brussels and easy tolerance of hash smoking (but not selling) in most northern European countries. A government-supported radio station in Amsterdam quotes spot prices for incoming hashish: "Morocco, 2.90 guilders per gram; Turkey, 3.40; Nepal, 3.70; Pakistan...
...lenient treatment at the hands of Italian authorities contrasts sharply with that of U.S. Actor William Berger (TIME, April 5), who was held for almost eight months before trial after Italian police raided a party at his rented villa and found nine-tenths of one gram of marijuana. He was acquitted, but his wife, who was also held-though never charged -in connection with the case, died in prison...
...Chicago Daily News in 1910, Mowrer belonged to the new generation of adventurous but analytical World War I foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine...