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Latin America poses other worries besides heroin for U.S. narcotics agents, and more serious ones than the tons of marijuana that are smuggled across the border daily. Along the continent's Andean spine, the peasants of Bolivia and highland Peru, who have long chewed the coca leaf for pleasure, are now selling more and more of it as a cash crop?cocaine. The drug, which is psychologically if not physically addictive, has become popular in Europe and in parts of the U.S. Ingersoll worries that "in the long run, the cocaine dilemma is going to be more serious than heroin...
...Globe Girdler Sir Francis Chichester sailed off anyway, was reported missing for several days, and became the object of extensive air and sea searches before he was located and helped back to port. Stung by continuing criticism, the aging mariner has now clearly identified his albatross-cancer of the spine-and attempted to justify his entry in the race...
...Times of London, written from his bed at the Royal Naval Hospital in Plymouth, Sir Francis explained: "After returning from my round-the-world trip in 1967, an illness developed and in due course it was discovered that I had a malignant growth near the base of my spine. The tumor spread to involve my spine and later other bones. With the help of appropriate treatment I have been fighting this trouble, and on the whole it has been a successful fight-because it did not prevent me from building a new yacht and improving the singlehanded-long-distance world...
...Night of the Lepus, Janet Leigh is hungrily eyed by 1,500 mad, mutant rabbits, photographed so that they appear six feet tall. In Dr. Phibes, bats, bees, rats and locusts are on an angry prowl. Yet to come are a thriller about man-killing spiders; a spine-tingler about murderous house cats; something called Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; Rats, Rats, Rats; and the inevitable Dr. Phibes Rises Again...
There was no urgency, they felt, about removing the other bullet lodged against Wallace's spine. It had already done its damage. Its concussive impact had bruised nerves and caused partial paralysis. But it was now wedged "harmlessly" against the spinal cord. It could be left there until his general condition improved...