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...Lethal Success. Such desires, explains Jong, "were a fantasy of my 20s." Now 32, she has outgrown them. "The beautiful men on the street are probably very boring to talk to." Jong grew up in a Jewish household in Manhattan, attended Barnard College and earned a master's degree in English literature from Columbia. Both Jong and Isadora are poets; both had brief marriages to fellow students, then married American-born Chinese psychiatrists. Most of the novel, says Jong, is "an interweaving of fiction with reality...
...letter words and literary allusions. At times in her life, she has suffered from depressions, insomnia and other problems and, in fact, quit psychoanalysis last fall after eight years of therapy four times a week. She is happiest when left alone to write and complains that success can be lethal. "People always want to collect you for cocktail parties and take you to bed," she says. They have also inundated her with letters spelling out ultimate secrets. Notes Jong: "The whole thing makes me feel like Miss Lonelyhearts in Nathanael West's novella." A self-styled feminist, she recalls...
...cocaine from Miami to Chicago. Stoutly denying her guilt, even after conviction last November, she was still engaged in the process of appeal when she was found dead last week, at 34, in a 17th-floor room of a hotel on Chicago's North Side. Coroners, who found lethal doses of a tranquilizer, a sleep-inducing drug, and a barbiturate in her body, ruled her death an apparent suicide...
Just a year ago, federal authorities had reason to believe that the lethal heroin traffic was at last slowing. Deaths related to heroin had fallen significantly in 1973. Prices on the average were up -a sure sign of scarcity-and on the East Coast particularly "white" heroin made from the Turkish opium poppy was in short supply. Government officials were confident that the number of users was declining nationwide...
...treatment. Either their condition is not diagnosed, or their doctors do not realize the importance of mildly elevated blood pressure. Others, bored by the drug regimen and lulled into a sense of false security by a lack of symptoms, drop out of treatment programs. Such lapses can be lethal. Dr. Freis once treated a young, dangerously hypertensive law student by putting him on diuretics but could not induce him to continue with the medication. The patient died of a stroke at 29. Other dropouts have been more fortunate. Helga Brown, 46, of San Francisco, followed her doctor's orders...