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These are the pop drugs?the drugs widely taken by middle-class young people, most of whom are white. Their use is growing; marijuana smoking, in particular, is increasing. (Heroin use, by contrast, remains comparatively static.) "For the first time," says California Psychopharmacologist Dr. Leo Hollister, "pot is entrenched in our society, with untold millions using the drug. We have passed the point of no return...
Adapted to the screen by Charles Dyer from his play, Staircase is a static, placid film in which the camerawork is subdued. Its strength is in its two key players. Each being determined, perhaps, to do his best acting before a peer, Burton and Harrison give firmly disciplined, finely delineated performances of undeviating honesty. Burton has rarely immersed himself in a part to the extent that one could forget he was Richard Burton, but he does it this time. Harrison has often seemed to be acting before a mirror rather than a camera. In Staircase he is acting before...
...G.O.P. hopes, Phillips dismisses some areas as places where "Democratic trends correlate with stability and decay (New England, New York City, Michigan, West Virginia and San Francisco-Berkeley)." Certain heavily urbanized states, according to Phillips, "are no longer necessary for national Republican victory." Urban populations in some regions are static or declining, and presumably Phillips believes that the city will soon belong to the blacks, who are either Democrats or uninterested in exercising their franchises...
Through the remainder of the outbound flight, Apollo 11 astronauts were less talkative than their Apollo 10 predecessors. "It's all dead air and static," said an official in Mission Control...
...broadside was aimed at the New York Telephone Co., one of the biggest of the Bell System. Benton & Bowles staffers have been struggling for five weeks with a near blackout of communications. Callers trying to reach the agency have encountered crackling static, interminable busy signals, voices that faded away strangely, and occasionally dead silence. "Not only were people unable to get us," says B. & B. Chairman Ted Steele,* "but there were gremlins in the outgoing system too." The troubles began when the agency moved to new quarters in Manhattan covered by the PLaza 8 exchange. It is the first...