Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opium growing...
...Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
...start economizing in his own department, which manages more than 5,000 Government buildings, buys $430 million worth of supplies yearly for federal agencies, stores enough records to fill seven Pentagon buildings, and maintains the nation's $4 billion stockpile of critical defense materials, including feathers, sapphires, opium, castor oil and manganese. Mansure, whose agency buys $60 million worth of office supplies yearly, has already gone a long way toward trimming waste by standardizing purchases. Where GSA formerly bought 25 different chair styles, it now buys only one; instead of ten grades of paper clips, it buys four, eight...
...wife, teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist and joins one of a dozen Klannish clubs bent on terrorizing Negroes out of their newly gained rights...
...States I was a science-fiction addict myself," confessed Hungarian Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler in Harper's Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...