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...problem began in the mid-1970s, when many American users began to realize just how lethal "smack" could be and when a rival drug, cocaine, rose to new prominence. With heroin falling out of fashion, the number of hardcore American users has dropped from a peak of 700,000 a decade ago to 500,000 today. The slippage in this key market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin...
...cause of all this furor is a plan by U.S. Architect I.M. Pei to build a 66-ft-high glass pyramid smack in the center of one of the sacred precincts of French culture: the courtyard of the venerable Louvre Museum. The structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been...
Last week, against Cleveland's slick Southpaw Al Smith and Righthandy Jim Bagby (who relieved Smith in the eighth), Di Maggio failed to get a ball past the infield. Off Smith, he grounded out twice and drew a walk. Off Bagby, he hit smack into a double play...
...another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle eyes and mouth whipped to a black pulp by the K. K. K. before he is released. But the boar is the chief sacrifice and its name has the inimitable Lewis smack, Elmer Gantry...
...these spanking late night book fixes smack of quiche eating and for true mustiness you'll have to wander into one of Cambridge's more eclectic bookstores The True Grit Award goes to the Bookcase and the Starr Book Shop (in the shadow of the crane at the corner of Plympton and Mt Auburn Sts) whose stacks of dusty old books will keep you entranced (and perhaps sneezing) for hours. More pristine but not less interesting is the scholarly Pangloss Bookshop on Mass Ave. a haven for would be academics brimming over with learned tomes and obscure journals All three...