Word: drug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace, Father Groppi summoning his people out of the ghetto. Even so, the failure of the churches at large to deal with the social and psychological condition of mankind seems to many to reflect a decline of decision and direction. The prevalent eroticism in the arts, sexual permissiveness, the drug culture, the rise in crime and other violence, the increase in petty dishonesty ?all point to the erosion of the churches' moral authority. With gallows humor, a Catholic priest dismisses reforms like lay parish councils as "shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic...
...from 49% of the population in 1958 to 43% in 1968. The young are not as irreligious as they seem ?far from it. But most fail to recognize their religious impulse, and they satisfy it far away from the churches ?in Eastern (or pseudo-Eastern) mysteries, in drug reveries, in the noisy trance ,of rock, or sometimes in the touchable realities of nature...
...chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately to draw the support of North Viet Nam. They selected Switzerland's Victor H. Umbricht, head of CIBA Ltd., the drug manufacturer...
Cupid's Quiver is sold in pastel packaging from cosmetics counters instead of drug shelves. It was introduced nationally in August, and sales in the first two months climbed to $250,000-a total that would please any marketer of a new drug or cosmetic. It has had little trouble moving into better-known stores, including San Francisco's I. Magnin, Washington's Woodward & Lothrop and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus. Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier declined to advertise the product publicly but included 75,000 brochures for the item in the monthly statements that it mails...
...Began Underground. The product's prospects were further heightened last month when Tawn Limited, a subsidiary of McKesson Laboratories, the giant drug wholesaler, bought the production and distribution rights. Until then, Cupid's Quiver was produced by Joseph Laboratories in Los Angeles, a tiny, one-product firm formed this year by Hylton Socher, a public relations man, and Harvey Meyerhoff, a graphics designer. They had acquired the product from Michael Intrator, a musician, who had developed it. For a time, he sold Cupid's Quiver through ads in the Los Angeles Free Press and other underground newspapers...