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...amiable, boozy doctor in a movie remake of Stagecoach, Bing bunked down at the Caribou Country Club and Ranch near Nederland, Colo., made some scenes for the horse opera, fished for rainbow trout with his son Harry, 7, and mused happily: "I look a bit like a Skid...
Alcohol is his study, and Author Morris Chafetz can speak with authority. As a doctor, psychiatrist, and currently director of the Alcohol Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital, he has observed the whole range of human reactions to alcohol, from the fanatical teetotaler to the Skid Row bum. And after all the misery that he has seen resulting from the abuse of alcohol, Dr. Chafetz still proclaims that liquor, properly used, is indeed the friend...
From the opposite direction came a North Vietnamese truck. The driver obviously did not know that Dodson shot only film. Recalls Dodson: "As we raced toward each other, I could see the front end of the truck beginning to skid and zigzag as the driver tried to halt...
...bonds, bulldozed away acres of slums, attacked the traffic problem. Today, monuments to his administration stand everywhere: a nearly completed arch, designed by the late Eero Saarinen, symbolizing the city's history as a gateway to the West; an $89 million sports stadium rising from what was once Skid Row; 602 city blocks undergoing a facelift...
Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...