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Meanwhile in New York, where so much of the ugly action takes place, Correspondent Karsten Prager interviewed ten youngsters at Odyssey House where ex-addicts encourage newcomers as young as twelve to kick the habit. John Austin spent a chilling evening in suburban Westchester County, N.Y., with middle-class high school students who talked freely about police officers, teachers and even doctors who know but don't care about the kids' problem. Other expertise was supplied by Douglas Gasner, whose experience as TIME'S Medicine reporter was invaluable for the box on symptoms parents should watch...
...ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961. 303 pages. Putnam. $6.95, "If the West can find no voice better than Senator McCarthy's to rally its cause, or even to lead its forlorn hope, then the West must have lost that creative virtue, the loss of which spells doom for those who have lost it . . .A distaste for Communism and socialism is not a program...
...nylons were in shreds. Pursued by paparazzi throughout their Roman honeymoon, South Africa's Dr. Christian Barnard and his Barbara took it all in good heart. After all, "those fellows have a job to do too," said the doctor. He may have second thoughts. From Rome their honeymoon odyssey took them to the U.S., where they caught Liza Minnelli's act in New York, viewed the space center at Huntsville, Ala., and attended the Heart Ball in Palm Beach. Result: more batteries of cameras. Upcoming on their trip: Norway, Lebanon and Switzerland...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...
...measure the incidence of youthful drug use, much less to control it. There are scarcely any treatment centers in the country exclusively for youthful addicts. In New York City, petty-minded authorities are trying to close one of them. This month in court, Dr. Densen-Gerber will defend Odyssey House against charges of operating without a license and violating the building code...