Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small package was addressed to Singer-Actress Barbara McNair at the Playboy Club in McAfee, N.J., and it had hardly arrived before federal narcotics agents swooped down and arrested her and her husband Rick Manzie for possession of half an ounce of heroin. After their arraignment in Newark, photographers flocked around so persistently that Manzie seized hold of one; then Barbara joined the melee, and it finally took a dozen U.S. marshals to restore peace. Two days later, claiming that her career had been devastated and that many bookings had been canceled, Barbara declared that the whole thing...
...received", and dangles them above a generational abyss made up of paradoxes and contradictions based on the dichotomy of young and old, using them to represent all forms of societal and psychological troubles in the world today. Sickle-cell anemia apparently can't be mentioned without bringing in miscegenation, heroin addiction, and the ghetto experience. Twin "babies" age twenty-eight, spell double-trouble night down the line: homosexuality, incest, fake suicides and "dressing up" together; they put the Bobbseys to shame...
Buckley praised the British methadone program, instituted in 1968, which treats heroin as a medical problem and said that it has successfully taken "the profit out of the heroin trade" by making the drug available to addicts through government sponsored clinics...
Buckley cited alcohol, barbituates and amphetamine as "our most serious drugs." He said that heroin, "the most notorious of all the drugs, is really the least damaging," If takes in pure doses, whereas the negative effects of three ounces of alcohol can be measured "immediately...
...Barber, in his report, points out that the heroin Traffic--although large in relation to the total supply of hard drugs on the East Coast--amounts to less than 10 per cent of Fixyou, Inc.'s total business. "It is a highly-diversified company," he writes, "with interests in movie theaters, helicopter manufacture, watch bands and massage parlor franchises. It is, therefore, unfair to assume that the Harvard capital is going to help finance the drug traffic rather than, let us say, helicopters...