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...produce a high that resembles drunkenness and can lead to anything from euphoria and a sense of bouncing to depression and hallucinations. Larger doses can bring convulsions, psychosis, uncontrollable rage, coma and death. "It's a real terror of a drug," says NIDA Director Robert DuPont. "Everything people used to say about marijuana is true about angel dust...
...taking care of business, old overcoats collars-turned-up, fedora brims turned-down-against-the-weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...
Starting with Nobel and such other "merchants of death" as Alfred Krupp, Andrew Carnegie and the duPont family,Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson, a British journalist, traces the rise of the international arms market. As any good front-page journalist does, Sampson pays sharp attention to detail and leaves the analysis to more sophisticated writers. He merely tries to trace the industry point-by-point, producing an account valuable for researchers and pleasure readers...
Shares of some of the nation's biggest, best-known and most successful companies have done far worse than the averages indicate. The Singer Co. hit a price peak of over $93 a share in 1972; it is now down to around $24. DuPont stock, at about 113, is selling for less than half its price of 261 in 1965. Among glamour issues, Polaroid has nosedived from a high of 149 in 1972 to around 30 now. Most startling of all: General Motors shares peaked out at almost 114 in 1965 and are now down to around 65-even...
...Nonsense, says the Federal Government. Heavy use of cocaine can cause such side effects as sleeplessness, anxiety, hallucinations and even death. Cocaine also creates a strong psychological dependence, if not a direct physical addiction. While he endorses the relaxation of stiff penalties for smoking pot, NIDA Director Dr. Robert DuPont opposes any easing of the legal restrictions on what he regards as a far more dangerous trip. Insists DuPont: "Cocaine is not like marijuana...