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...problem is of staggering proportions. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder and psychiatric director of New York's Odyssey House, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, calls it an epidemic. The first young heroin users began appearing at her clinic only last June, she says. Today the traffic is more than Odyssey House can handle-four to six junior junkies every day. To accommodate the overflow, Dr. Densen-Gerber has opened two branches solely for youthful addicts. One of her first applicants: a nine-year...
...first act revolves around the hellish odyssey of a peasant serving-girl, who roams the countryside with the abandoned baby son of the executed governor. She is never more than a few steps ahead of the Ironshirts, the brutal mercenaries ordered to find and murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some...
...odyssey of good will had taken him 35,000 miles, but when Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, 39, came home to Dallas last week, he had little to show for his trip. Twelve days earlier, Perot had loaded a chartered Boeing 707 jet-christened Peace on Earth -with Christmas presents and messages for American G.I.s held captive by the North Vietnamese. Another jet, named Goodwill Toward Men, waited vainly in Los Angeles for his call to follow...
...Abbey Cinema-Stanley Kubrick's masterwork, 2001: A Space Odyssey, "Suggested for stoned audiences." 600 Commonwealth...
Italians are making a jet-age Robin Hood of Skyjacker Raffaele Minichiello. When he comes to trial for that gunpoint odyssey from Los Angeles to Rome, the young Marine should have no trouble financing his defense. He stands to get lira aplenty from Producer Carlo Ponti, who will make a $2,000,000 movie about the adventure. And why not Mrs. Ponti-Sophia Loren -as the hostess who volunteers to go all the way with TWA and Raffaele...