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Around midnight, Martinez drops by a club he frequents on Atlantic Avenue carrying a pack of his 50% pure. By day the club is a pleasant bar and restaurant, but when the last diners leave, the door is locked and only the select can enter. The man who answers the door after three quick knocks nods Martinez into the red-draped dark room, with music blaring from a four-piece Latin band. After a round of beer with his friend the middleman, Martinez makes the transaction and goes home...
...scientific studies of marijuana are uncertain, the studies on cocaine are even more mysterious. When the drug's active ingredient was chemically isolated in the 1860s, doctors soon found that cocaine was valuable as a local anesthetic. They also found that it acted as a very pleasant stimulant. Young Sigmund Freud used it and advocated it: "The psychic effect consists of exhilaration and lasting euphoria...
While in the Army, Graham married his college sweetheart, Mary L. Wissler now a lawyer; they and their two children live in Washington's Cleveland Park section. Those who know him almost invariably describe Graham as decent, pleasant and entirely unassuming. "He's just as good to the people who clean the bathrooms as he is to [Columnist] David Broder," says Post Police Reporter Alfred Lewis. One doubt that colleagues whimsically cite about young Graham's business acumen: he has been known to loan reporters money. His deeper footprints around the paper are harder to find...
Mitchelson is no lectern pounder; even attorneys who have opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...
Office workers, who sit at desks in pleasant buildings, may stay on in larger numbers, but not all that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than...