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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...
...films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television show discontinued because it showed too much of a bosomy blonde film star named Libertad Leblanc. One evening this month police stormed into the Buenos Aires Institute of Modern Art Theater just before curtain time, canceled a production of British Playwright Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, gave the actors 20 minutes to take off their make up and get out, then closed the theater...
...Brookline architectural firm of Salsberg and LeBlanc designed the building, to be called the Fenway-Cambridge Motor Hotel. It will consist of seven wings, each overlooking the curved Charles River, according to architect Irving Salsberg...
Biggest Ever. He did not, it seems, devote all his hours to metallurgy. Last week agents of the Brigade des Stupe-fiants-France's counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
...desire to take medicine" that Osier noted still dies hard. The biggest medicine-show extravaganza of all, says Author Carson, was staged in 1950 with Dixieland bands and Hollywood stars to promote a $1.25-a-bottle tonic that pulled in millions for a spellbinding Louisiana legislator named Dudley J. LeBlanc. The potion was called Hadacol, and it contained 12% alcohol. The Hadacol empire wound up in a tangle of bankruptcy proceedings...