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...with hostility. In California and elsewhere, use of the drug -especially among teen-agers-has reached epidemic proportions. It accounts for 10% of all drug-overdose cases in some Los Angeles hospitals. San Francisco authorities suspect that at least five murders in the past year involved users of the compound. First developed in the 1950s by Parke, Davis & Co. as an anesthetic, PCP produced such extreme reactions during trials that the drug was quickly shelved-although it is now sometimes used legally as an animal tranquilizer. The substance is cheaper than cocaine or heroin and nearly as available as marijuana...
...Moreau. To Braddock (Michael York), a shipwrecked sailor, they are at first shadowy, ominous presences, cracking twigs underfoot and growling in the gloom. What could they be? What, for that matter, are the mysterious experiments that the overlord of the island, Dr. Moreau (Burt Lancaster), is conducting in his compound? And why do all of Moreau's servants seem-well, barely human...
Chic Oasis. To compound the problem, the fund's old trustees placed a lot of trust-and money-in a few individuals. At one point, Allen Click, a boyish businessman who controls the Stardust and Fremont casino-hotels in Nevada through Argent Corp., owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which...
...more popular than ever, thanks mainly to the new low charter fares that offer round-trip flights to London for as little as $350. Passport applications are up 15%. Vacations this year cost 5% to 10% more than last year, but with the economy stronger, inflation at a compound annual rate of 7.4% and unemployment easing to 6.9%, Americans seem more comfortable about indulging themselves...
Unfortunately, as innocent as such a solution may seem, it is filled with as many perils as, well, a 19th century medicine man's wagon. In the case of cancer, quack remedies involve more than bustled ladies sipping alcohol-laced Lydia Pinkham's compound or husky baldpates rubbing themselves with hair-growth oil. They are a cruel hoax that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita...