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BARBITURATES are used by doctors as sleeping pills and tranquilizers. They are taken by kids only out of naivete or in the absence of anything better, since their high is minimal: after an initial flash of relaxation, in which tensions seem to disappear, they produce physical and mental lassitude and can cause death. Barbiturates also create heavy physical dependency...
Camille was not yet exhausted, however, The hurricane poured up to ten inches of rain on the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, leaving 62 dead and 110 missing from flash floods. Massies Mill, Va., was destroyed by the rampaging Tye River. "The excessive rainfall took us completely by surprise," said one U.S. meteorologist. Surprise also added to the toll on the Gulf Coast, where it had been thought that Camille was headed for Florida. So, however, did overconfidence in the face of the storm. "Most of these people have been through hurricanes before, and we had no reason...
...names. She is really Rachel Ames, a successful mystery writer and the wife of an American journalist based in Central Europe. In the first volume of her trilogy she graduated from the rigors of a hackneyed suspense plot; for the moment she has regressed. The third volume will flash back to Julia Homburg's early career in Vienna's Burgtheater, a more likely subject than cold war soul-searching for the novel of manners the author does best...
...lighter side. Billy the G turned right onto route #87. He whispered down the road past the chartered limousines flicking radio knobs and searching for WABC. In the back Smith-field and the Daytona Flash traded down-home stories about the country and being on the road. And they stole into the Spa with only with sharp money being wiser...
...word spread through the newsroom like a FLASH-IMMEDIATE wire bulletin. What was up, one afternoon last week, was a single sheet of white paper, thumbtacked to The New York Times's third-floor notice board and signed by Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, announcing a shake-up among top Times editors. Highlights of the memo: - "James Reston, Executive Editor, has been elected a Vice President with primary responsibility in the areas of news coverage. He will return to Washington and will continue his three-times-a-week column from there." - "Clifton Daniel, Managing Editor, will become Associate Editor...