Word: speeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaw and Colburn are feeling and running better, but injuries are still bothering Bob Seals and Dave Pottetti." McCurdy said yesterday. Seals has been suffering recently from left hip pains, which developed after a knee injury cleared up. Erik Roth and Charlie McCormick are also at less than top speed because of ailments. All are expected to run, however...
...FOUR YEARS since his Unsafe at Any Speed drove Corvair off the market and set General Motors detectives on his tail. Ralph Nader has gone a long way towards establishing himself as the Renaissance Man of American crusaders. After cutting his muckraking teeth on the automobile industry. Nader has moved on to hit a staggering range of targets...
...SPEED, as the hippies warn, kills. Users feel that amphetamines sharpen their physical reactions and increase confidence. In small doses for short periods, these stimulants are considered safe and are legitimately used to treat depression and curb appetite. To get high, speedsters give themselves...
...when Methedrine is used?the jolt can raise blood pressure enough to cause immediate death; chronic use can lead to a psychosis that many doctors feel is more similar to schizophrenia than any of the psychotic symptoms brought on by other dangerous drugs. While a person is "up" on speed, his body runs down, making him easy prey to disease. Although amphetamines generally are not considered physically addictive, when a user comes down ("crashes") he is so tired and depressed that he is tempted to start again. His body builds up a tolerance...
...Officers and trained hounds searched automobile glove compartments and trunks, children's dolls and hollow surfboards, northbound traffic was slowed for miles on Mexico's routes 2 and 15. Other agents were at the ready in Coast Guard ships, fast cars, helicopters and high-speed pursuit planes to cut off smugglers at any available pass. Eventually the U.S. hopes to encourage Mexican agents to use planes equipped with electronic sniffers to detect where marijuana is being grown and then spray the plants with a still-experimental compound that will nauseate users who later smoke the products...