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...them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel is peculiarly fascinating for its creation of a new war generation in print, a kind of fighting man who could go into combat spouting bop talk, read the plays of Sophocles between barrages, and sniff heroin for kicks when away from the MLR (Main Line of Resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Americans at War | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Public Office. In Oakland, Calif., after they found $500 worth of heroin in his car, cops locked up Dope-Peddling Suspect Robert McShann despite his plea: "You gotta let me out of here or there'll be panic in the streets. I was just making deliveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Kiss Me, Deadly. In Boston, after she visited her husband at the Deer Island jail, embraced him affectionately, Mrs. Joan Witherspoon was arrested, charged with passing him heroin capsules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Reconciled, in a Senate-House conference, conflicting measures on stiffer penalties for narcotics pushers. Most important agreements: to permit juries to direct a death sentence for dopesters convicted of selling heroin to minors, raise the top sentence for hardened dope passers (three or more violations) from 20 to 40 years. The bill now goes back to both houses for final approval before being sent to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...billion highway construction bill in substantially the same form already voted by the House (TIME, May 7). ¶ Shouted approval of a bill aimed at tightening the U.S. narcotics laws. Sponsored by Texas' Democratic Senator Price Daniel, the bill, as sent to the House, would ban all heroin in the U.S., require even hospitals and druggists to give up their supplies. More drastically, it would allow the courts to impose the death penalty on persons selling heroin to juveniles and on all heroin peddlers and heroin smugglers convicted for the third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Case for Foreign Aid | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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