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Last week the payoff came when police arrested a new suspect in the Wylie-Hoffert murders: Richard Robles, 22, an ex-convict and narcotics addict, whose habit is said to require "about five bags of heroin a day." (Daily cost: roughly $100 or more.) The evidence against Robles reportedly rests on the word of a friend-turned-informer, Nathan Delaney, 35, another addict with three criminal convictions...
Some more understandable collector's items are such handsome felines as house-cat-size margays, ocelots and cheetahs-Oregon Sportsman John S. Day, 55, uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...
...otherwise not be able to enter or complete such training," grants to help cover the operating costs of medical and dental schools and improve their teaching, funds to modernize existing hospitals, loans to build and equip group-practice clinics, and new federal controls over the production and distribution of habit-forming drugs...
...said that despite gains in weaning people away from cigarette smoking, the habit still kills at least 125,000 Americans annually-and may even kill as many...
...Color. In its record-shattering sales of 8,000,000 cars in 1964, Detroit found that the average motorist, who had long been in the habit of buying a new car every four years, now buys one every three years-often the family's second or third car. Last year 5,000,000 Americans bought miniature or portable TV sets, mostly to supplement the big sets that they already had. It was also a big breakthrough year for the color TV industry, which added $500 million to the gross national product by marketing 1,400,000 sets, almost twice...