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...promise of the stuff. The number of speeders-called "speed freaks," "meth freaks," "meth monsters," or "meth heads"-has, according to the hippies, increased enormously within recent months. Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimate that in San Francisco alone, 4,000 people regularly inject themselves with powerful amphetamines...
...general pattern, says the California report, is for the user to inject methedrine into a vein about every two hours around the clock. He stays awake continuously for three to six days-sometimes as long as twelve days. Appetite for food is suppressed completely during this time, and there is a compulsion for constant action. At first this activity is purposeful, say the researchers, but as the "run" progresses, it becomes ever more disorganized. The taker himself, others note, becomes increasingly agitated, often shaking, quivering, working his mouth incoherently...
...Federation has already solved many of the problems of its infancy. It has an organization and a program, and plenty of time to inject itself into the University's budget plans. But it has never before had to overcome the resistance of a body as formidable as the Harvard Administration. Getting started was an achievement--but an achievement accomplished without opposition. The Federation's ultimate role at Harvard, and possibly its survival, will depend on what it can get done this year...
Richard Mathews makes Ross surprisingly credible. His first entrance is on the run; and he kneels before King Duncan more out of exhaustion than deference. Only in the course of his lengthy report does he gain his breath, stand up, and gradually inject his words with increasing enthusiasm. Tom Aldredge's Macduff is properly honest and resolute. But when, before the climactic duel, he says, "I have no words;/My voice is in my sword," one wishes the statement were literally true, for his vocal delivery through-out the play is throaty and gargly...
...millions of Americans the question arises only in the limited context of education." I am one of millions who see the separation of church and state as something yet to be achieved. Religion, operating as a tax-exempt enterprise with some $77 billion in assets, has managed to inject its taboos and mores into statute and ordinance in every state...