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Even the Government, the largest user, is only slowing the rate of increase in its computer orders. Federal departments will buy or lease 4,750 computers in the current fiscal year, up 2% from fiscal 1969, which had shown a 10% rise over the previous year. What last week's traumas really proved was that the computer industry has reached a stage of maturity which includes troubled as well as growing companies...
...Randell had gone mod and was promoting computer-matched dating and half-fare cards for American Airlines. Other gimmicks that he and his campus representatives pushed included the outrageous and the plain corny: a pillow for sit-in demonstrators featuring a pocket containing No Doz pills to keep the user awake, a poster showing the Gothic splendors of Notre Dame above the line "Gargoyle with Listerine...
...After developing tolerance to the drug, a user may be able to work and converse normally under its influence. Loss of appetite and constipation will continue; he may look pale and undernourished. Look for signs of injections: black and blue tattoolike marks, small scabs or long scars along veins, especially on forearms, backs of hands and insteps, small drops of blood on clothing. An addict may keep his sleeves rolled down to hide marks...
...stages, a user may be desperate for money. Parents should watch for disappearance of salable objects from the house...
...most accepted means of dealing with the drug addict is through a small, controlled therapeutic community. These residential communities first detoxify, then attempt to rehabilitate the drug user by restructuring his eqo and life pattern. Some, like California's famed Synanon, are run largely by former addicts. They accept only those who have proved their determination to kick the heroin habit, and seek to increase the addict's understanding of himself and his problems through often brutal group-encounter sessions. Others, like New York's city-run Phoenix and Horizon Houses, utilize both ex-addicts and professionals...