Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfolds in Hollywood mansions, Sunset Strip restaurants, film studios and tacky hotels with flashing neon signs, concluding with a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. To satisfy the Nathaniel West fans, Aldrich has also thrown in a perverse and crippled gossip columnist (Coral Browne), a lusty Mexican, and a heroin-addicted lesbian...
What most worries American commanders is the more recent-and more dangerous-spread of heroin. In 1966, there were only four disciplinary cases involving hard drugs; in 1970, there were 1,751 cases. In one 79-day period last year, 75 G.I.s died of suspected or confirmed use of heroin. Perhaps one in five G.I.s has smoked or "snorted" heroin. "Shooting" it with a needle is not yet widespread, which means that most heroin-addicted G.I.s in Viet Nam have weak "candy habits" that can be broken. Even so, warns Colonel Thornton E. Ireland, the U.S. provost marshal in Viet...
...song's final stanza is a footnote to 1968, when James left New York trying to escape heroin and personal squalor, and thus brought to an end The Flying Machine, a struggling group started by his friend Danny Kootch...
...Vineyard." James had a little money from his parents, and he lived all alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after three months. Partly from inertia and partly out of loyalty to Kootch, James hung on for a year and a half. Then he escaped?not to the structure of McLean or the tranquillity of Martha's Vineyard but to swinging London...
...amount of heroin seized skyrocketed from 22 decks ($10 quantities) in 1969, to 364 decks in 1970. Hashish confiscated jumped from two pounds in 1969, to 28 pounds...