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...pretty underwater photography and some pretty fair suspense as good guys and bad guys thrash around on the ocean bottom looking for long-lost treasure of the Spanish Main, which is all mixed up with some more recently misplaced valuables -morphine that the wicked ones want to turn into heroin...
...story also has some pretty serious problems, or, perhaps more accurately, some puzzling aspects for what is intended as summer-weight entertainment. The most curious of these is a certain unconscious-or is it semiconscious?-racism. The crowd pursuing the almost-heroin is composed entirely of black men, and their interest in sexually tormenting Ms. Bisset is at least as powerful as their greed for the drug. She is cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon...
...home in Ottawa with the children, Margaret celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary by partying it up in Toronto with one of her favorite rock bands, Britain's raunchy Rolling Stones (TIME, March 21). The group's lead guitarist, Keith Richard, had just been charged with possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking. Margaret subsequently flew off to Manhattan and launched a freelance photographic career...
...Hawes, 48, jazz pianist and composer (All Night Session); of a brain hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. An effervescent, percussive keyboard stylist inspired by the bop artist Bud Powell, Hawes performed with many of the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Garrison. Although Hawes became addicted to heroin during the 1950s, he kicked the habit and wrote about both his addiction and his music in his autobiography, Raise...
Despite pot's wide acceptance among most students, parents and law enforcement officials continue to group it with harder drugs. Cambridge police chief Leo F. Davenport said last week, "The problem with marijuana is that it leads to the harder stuff--LSD, cocaine, mescaline, speed, heroin, the stuff that will hurt you." Davenport still thinks that marijuana is "a major concern" for law enforcement officials...