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Heroin is usually injected directly into a vein or "mainlined," and it soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Heroin and Death | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...than the altitude at which commercial jets fly over the earth. "We're getting so close," said Stafford, "all you have to do is put your tail wheel down and we're there." As the spacecraft headed back toward earth at week's end, Flight Director Milton Windier summed up the immediate import of the flight, which was designed to test out Snoopy's performance before an actual moon landing: "It's all downhill from here. I see nothing to constrain the launch of Apollo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NINE MILES FROM THE GOAL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Those elected are: Scott A. Boorman, Quincy House; Steven J. Kelman, Adams; Howard D. Kirshenbaum, Winthrop; Peter D. Kramer, Winthrop; David A. Lerner, Quincy; Edward McGaffigan Jr., Winthrop; Robert E. Mintz, Leverett; Matthew C. Mole, Eliot; Ronald B. Ponn, Eliot; Paul S. Viita, Leverett; Milton C. Weinstein, Dunster; and Marshall S. Wolff, Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elects Juniors | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...them all as they came out of Buster's, shaking hands, exchanging greetings--Milton Battiste, Kid Sheik, Andy Anderson, Papa Glass. "Say, man," Sheik said, "this is gettin' to be more like a party or something than a funeral...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: New Orleans Jazz Funeral Pounds Gaily for the Dead | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

...radical post-war avant-grade split into those wishing to fulfill the logic of dense twelve-tone organization, represented by such composers as Milton Babbitt and Pierre Boulez, and those desiring to create music with the least possible constraints, represented by Cage and Stockhausen. The latter reacted against the old ghosts of Kingsor and Vienna, Wagner and Schoenberg himself. The new principle was that the legitimacy of music flows simply from the auditor's effort to feel sheer sounds. Music is the sensitized constancy of the world's masses. To borrow a term from language studies, music is mimetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musical Avant-Garde | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

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