Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like Opium. Butcher, 65, and Seabrook, 50, have been resolving the dilemma with finesse and foresight; they have snapped up some 20 other companies since 1959. The diversification began, says Seabrook, "because feeding your shareholders dividends is like feeding them opium. You have to keep giving larger doses. We didn't think we could face withdrawal symptoms." Accordingly, from gas and electricity production in the Canadian province of Alberta, International Utilities spread into ocean shipping, bus lines, demolition and salvage, steel fabrication, trucking and copper-silver mining. Revenues rose from $38 million in 1959 to $189.5 million last year...
First, legitimate textbooks and studies in fields such as medicine (The Human Sexual Response), sociology (Morals in Wartime), anthropology (Sexual Life of Savages), etymology (Anatomy of Dirty Words), history (Southern Rape Complex--Hundred Year Psychosis), and drug experimentation (Opium, Aphrodisiacs). Included in this group are the studies of Alfred Kinsey...
...provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic law with the result that in Georgia, to take the most extreme example, selling marijuana to minors can bring the death penalty...
Watching both antagonists from a hill were two companies of Royal Laotian infantry, ordered there by Laotian Commander in Chief Ouane Rathikoune, who depends heavily on his cut in the opium trade to buy the loyalty of his soldiers. When Chan tried to cross the Mekong in barges, the Chinese opened fire with everything in their armory. The Laotian commander tried to negotiate a truce and, failing, withdrew to watch the melee...
...fine lack of discrimination. When it was all over, Chan's forces had 82 dead, the Chinese soldiers some 200. Two Thais who had stopped to watch the action from across the river were killed, and the Laotian infantry counted several wounded. A goodly portion of the opium mysteriously disappeared, and has yet to be found...