Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Dodgers' realm is that of the future, the Braves' is that of the past. They will probably win their 91 ball games by force of habit if nothing else. The pitching staff is dilute behind Spahn, Burdette, and Buhl, while the relief core exists only in the capable imagination of Charlie Dresson. The Braves still have Hank Aaron and Eddie Matthews, but Joe Adoock and Del Crandall have shown their age in Bradenton this spring, and the old sparkplug, shortstop Johnny Logan has been relegated to second string behind Roy McMillan. Frank Bolling and Billy Martin will solve...
There are, to be sure, links between the guerrillas of the South and the Northern Communists. It is, though, entirely too easy for Ngo to blame all unrest on a baleful Northern influence; he has adopted the habit of labelling all serious opposition to him as Communist, a device which enables him and his Western allies to forget that Vietnamese officials are corrupt, land reform is slow, and many peasants are reported to feel that their interests are no concern of a government that represents city merchants and a bureaucracy...
...half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...
...Something That Works." The technique was patterned roughly after the group-therapy methods of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Synanon system cannot work until the addict really decides that he wants to kick the habit; but after that, it promises critical discipline and confinement through the first bad days of withdrawal, followed by a psychological treatment that usually kills the desire. Dr. Cressey describes the psychology: "A group in which Criminal A joins with some noncriminals to change Criminal B is probably most effective in changing Criminal...
Fortune and Anthony Pope are among Manhattan's richest men. Sons of the late Generoso Pope, who arrived from Italy with $4 and turned it into millions before he died at 59 in 1950, they have faithfully carried on their father's habit of making money. They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano...