Word: vincent
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...Habit. For all its dramatic effects, methadone therapy still stirs strong argument within the medical profession. The debate began in 1964 when Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander first started using the drug to wean addicts away from heroin. Methadone programs, which cost an average of $1,500 a year for each addict-as opposed to $5,000 to $10,000 for a year in prison -are operating in most major U.S. cities. About 10,000 of the country's estimated 200,000 heroin victims now participate in some form of methadone treatment; thousands more are waiting to enroll...
...children here have such beautiful names, like Rutha Mae Mason and Vincent Lee Mendenhall. Most of come from large families of about six to ten children, sometimes 14. They live in shacks out in the fields. Many of them have infected navels and scars on their skin from cuts that did not heal well due to malnutrition. One of the reasons that so many of them have trouble learning is that their brains have not gotten the proper nutrients, perhaps at some critical period in their biological development-not to speak of the obvious detrimental factors of their home...
...Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...
...Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Collin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
...weeks ago, while covering the Cross-Laporte case, Montreal Correspondent Vincent Carlin discovered that his best sources were disappearing behind bars. Last week he interviewed Pierre Bourgault, a nonviolent Quebec separatist who had been picked up, interrogated and released twice in one day. Our correspondents in Latin America have been covering the recurring story of kidnaping and terrorism for many months. Searching out Uruguay's Tupamaros is particularly trying, says Montevideo Stringer Eugenio Hintz. "You know all the time that they are around you, and you might be speaking with one without knowing it. You get the confirmation only...