Word: rome
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...successfully developed a painless procedure to detoxify heroin and amphetamine addicts through an unusual therapy combining medical-grade hashish and massage. Humes bases the validity of his technique on some ten years of experience applying the technique in "crash pad clinics" which he ran in cities as diverse as Rome and Princeton, New Jersey. His practice is part of a one-man campaign to return cannabis to the national Pharmacopoeia, the official list of drugs sanctioned for medical uses, from which cannabis was eliminated in 1937 when the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress. The act eventually...
...rise in narcotics abuse in the mid-'60s caught Humes's attention and prompted him to launch into an independent, unsponsored research program examining alternative detoxification methods for drug addicts. Humes traces his first "breakthrough" in this endeavor to 1967, when he began operating his first detoxification clinic in Rome. Humes claims to have gotten 125 addicts off their habits, most of them heroin users. However, his initial experimental program came to an abrupt halt in 1967 when police closed down his operation while Humes was away from Rome. Upon learning that the clinic had been put out of business...
This grisly modus operandi was used in the 1973 abduction of the grandson of Oil Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...
...Harvard soon enough, but still in Boston are concerts by the Boston Symphony and the Boston U. Symphony Orchestra. Seiji Ozawa conducts an all-Respighi concert today at 11 a.m.--"Festa Romane," "Fountains of Rome" and "Pines of Rome." The BSO also performs Haydn's Symphony No. 30 in C, the Boston Premiere of Cruckman's "Chiaroscuro," and Respighi again (minus "Festa Romane"). Here's your chance to hear the Respighi--interesting works evoking Roman splendor; the concerts are Friday at 2, Saturday at 8:30, and Tuesday at 7:30. The BU Symphony concert features the exciting Piano Concerto...
...Pope's birthday was a prelude to the week's major event in Rome: the opening of Paul's fifth Synod of Bishops...