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Attempting to cure addicts, the committee noted realistically, is a fearfully discouraging process. It involves "a painful and bewildering perplexity of treatment entailing difficult physical and psychological readjustment"; many a victim who has undergone treatment lapses into addiction again at the first temptation. The only real solution is to cut off drug supplies before innocents are victimized. Among the committee's recommendations...
...cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, 'Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his "science of the mind" could cure all mental and most bodily ills, make supermen of truly devoted converts. Today, dianetics is suffering the standard fate of the cult: one of its earliest adherents has broken away and is accusing Hubbard of having strayed from the true faith...
Last Sunday, as he climbed to his new diving platform, he felt "as calm as when I sip a glass of liqueur after dinner." He plummeted down & down in a perfect swan dive. As he came up, blinking, the crowd cheered happily for their "cure sportif...
...femme fatale, Harry is no fool, and Harry's friend (the nameless narrator of the story) is a retiring writer who wouldn't murder a flea except in print. Moreover, the scene on the Riviera beach is part of a cure, not a calamity...
...live. Perhaps the Riviera will bring her out of her dreams. It does, of course, with the unexpected help of the French mechanic. He disappears into some wild blue yonder, leaving her with a child, and his casual farewell crashes all Eve's myths and completes her cure...