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...been rumored since the 1970s to work well for addicts--and has been used in France for more than a year--scientists only recently began the costly clinical trials needed for government approval. Conducted at 12 hospitals around the U.S. and coordinated jointly by the government and drugmaker Reckitt & Colman, the trials have gone extremely well--so well that clinicians stopped giving placebos to control groups. "We could not morally go on giving placebos to people who needed the drug," says Dr. John Rotrosen, one of the study's administrators...
...South African-had managed to get entered among the 41 starters. But they went down quietly, and after that it was an All-England affair. The finalists, tall, willowy 45-year-old defending Champion H. O. Hicks (five-time winner since 1932) and stout 60-year-old Geoffry Reckitt, put on what most spectators decided was an "awfully good show...
...first game Hicks set a fast pace. Using an unorthodox side stroke, something like a golfer's putting stroke, he played around the course without a miss, posted a perfect 26. Reckitt, sticking to the conventional between -the -knees swing, flubbed early, got a meager eight, and Hicks won the game: plus-18, i.e., the difference in scores...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
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