Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose (if that is the word) from pill rolling in a Richmond drugstore to a secretary of the national committee of the Communist Party...
Where once she might have been expected to come apart like a sleeping pill in a puddle, she had turned near disasters into comedy skits and had brought off a remarkable performance despite a condition locally known as Chicago throat. She looked different, too. The wattles and jowls were gone. She has lost more than 30 Ibs., now weighs 102, but when someone asks her how much weight she has lost, she says, "About 185 Ibs."-i.e., her former husband, Producer Sid Luft. Instead of the familiar semi-kimono paunch-hiding maternity robes, she was wearing tight skirts...
Northwestern's baby-faced Quarterback Tommy Myers, 19, is a football coach's happy pill. He is the first man on the practice field each afternoon, the first in bed each night. He would not dream of breaking training. He does exactly as he is told: he never runs when he is supposed to pass-in fact, he rarely runs at all. "He's got an open field in front of him half the time," says Athletic Director Stu Holcomb, "and he won't even cross the line of scrimmage." But this is just fine with...
...tragic extent of the thalidomide disaster was officially confirmed last week in West Germany, where the malformation-causing drug was first synthesized eight years ago. Since 1957, when the sleeping-pill-tranquilizer was approved for over-the-counter sale, announced the Public Health Ministry, it has caused 10,000 cases of birth malformations in West Germany alone. In the U.S., only a handful of thalidomide-connected malformations have been reported, but there are more than 50 deformed babies in Canada, close to 1,000 in Britain, untold scores more across Western Europe, in Japan and South America, where the drug...
...Blame. Away from her small circle, taste ran to still deeper reaches of the macabre. Newspapers approached the frontiers of necrophilia with old cheesecake photos of her, then turned sly cameras to the inside of her coffin, the shambles of her home, the sad wealth of her sleeping-pill collection. Using a hidden camera, one photographer stole a shot of her toes as she was placed in a steel drawer at the morgue. Reporters took grave delight in noting that her temporary address was Crypt 33, where a cold description of "the fabulous figure" could be read on tags tied...