Word: heroines
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...talking to people as people instead of as sterile percentages, Coles paints faces on the nation's oppressed and allows the full dimension of reality to flower. He is always saying yes-but; yes, the mountaineer is racist but he always qualifies his racism; yes, the ghetto youth takes heroin but he worries about his mother who is old before her time; yes, the ghetto teacher is irritated and irritating, but she also cares deeply...
...Marijuana is not addictive, and the idea that pot smoking escalates to heroin use is "totally invalid...
...Even partial legislation of marijuana (sale and public smoking would remain criminal acts) might cut the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using subculture...
...keep noisy kids away. Rollins College first-year coeds want the right to have men visit their rooms. Animal lovers in Ybor City seek more space for the local zoo. Residents of Pompano Beach are aroused by a report that a school principal died from an overdose of heroin and those in Broward County by the arrest of a teacher for selling marijuana. In Leesburg, employers are mad at Disney World for paying wages above the prevailing scale. In Jacksonville, Mayor Hans Tanzler dismisses the complaints of environmentalists, whiffs his city's foul air and declares: "That smell means...
...from California who doesn't wear underwear? That on arrival at Logan, the cops bust her? That in order to secure her release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...