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...that confirmed or suspected heroin-connected deaths were occurring at a rate approaching one daily. Marijuana accounts for three-quarters of G.I. drug offenses in Viet Nam, but cheap (1/36th U.S. cost), extremely pure Laotian or Thai heroin is a tempting buy for men seeking temporary escape from the boredom and terror of war. It is less easily detected than pot. Moreover, G.I.s have developed the disturbing myth that if smoked-"snorted"-the drug is nonaddictive...
...lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
When ships are run by computers that can plot the course, set the speed according to sea conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely...
Absenteeism-staying away from the job-is a spreading plague in most industrial nations, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and especially the Soviet Union. Labor leaders concede that the workingman often grabs every opportunity to get away from the numbing boredom of the production line, but they add that attendance records are high in industries like shipbuilding, where workers put together large segments of a product and thus can take satisfaction in their work. Some sociologists say that widespread absenteeism is a sign of progress, an indication that people no longer want to labor in great factories because they...
...much indifference to screen acting as to its awards. "Film is not an actor's medium," Scott says. "You shoot scenes in order of convenience, not the way they come in the script, and that's detrimental to a fully developed performance. There's the terrible tedium and boredom involved in waiting around for the camera to be set up, and then you have to turn on and off when they do the scene over again. When you see the rushes is the first time you begin to judge your performance. If you get 50% of what you hoped...