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James LeBlanc, 32 and white, has been a heroin addict for ten years, dur ing which he has thrice been convicted of larceny. Each time he robbed, he says, it was to buy a fix. Now he is in New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center where, seven days a week, he takes an orange drink laced with gradually increasing doses of methadone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Kicking the Habit | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Reasoner said in an interview last week: "I think light is just as much a part of news as heavy. What I resent is the implication that merely because you see something funny, you are going to take that attitude toward everything." He explains that when he started writ ing his quips, "I wouldn't guarantee to write one every day. Sometimes the news just isn't funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Television: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a foot ing," he said. The result was that each canvas, with its endless layers of paint drying at different rates, was sure to crack and darken with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Great Romantic | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the perversion of our political life in the past was so profound that I personally am certain that our citizens are not yet mature. We Greeks have the weakness of act ing not only from logic but from emotion, and the politicians of the past must be cured of this weakness be fore they can help start a healthy process toward formation of political parties and the holding of elections. If we reach the point where fewer .politicians insult the revolution and where they accept their obligations as servants of the people, then perhaps we may have the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Papadopoulos Looks Ahead | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

People say they can jump without being afraid, which is quite true for them. If you were counting and think- ing the preplanned thoughts, you would probably be tensely exhilarted. But if you were aware of your environment, you would have to know that everything, including you, was unknown...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

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