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...have an expression at Synanon: it is "gut level," which means rock-bottom honesty. My gut-level feeling is that your story [March 1] was the most wonderful thing that has happened to me since coming to Synanon. As project director for the Nevada State Prison group, I would like you to know that it meant as much to the inmate members as it did to me personally...
Physicist Louis D. Kaplan of the University of Nevada and JPL, who helped design Mariner II's infra-red experiment, thinks that at ground level, Venus' atmospheric pressure may be 10 to 20 times that of Earth. Its dry, unbreathable air contains perhaps 10% carbon dioxide (v. .03% for Earth) and probably a little nitrogen. The clouds are so dense that the surface is probably dark. Radar waves bounced off Venus indicate rather uncertainly that there may be both mountains and smooth places, as on the earth...
...Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results directly from the inability of the Cambridge sewerage system to carry flood water into the Charles and the failure of Buildings and Grounds crews to keep Yard drains clear...
...insight: "I kept telling myself I had four strikes against me: I had only a seventh-grade education, I was black. I was a dope addict, and I had a record. I was using my misfortunes for an excuse to keep using dope." Last week Candy Latson was in Nevada State Prison-not as a prisoner but as an honored guest and Synanon counselor. He has been clean now for three years, and is working fulltime for nothing more than his keep and $2 a week spending money, to help others kick the habit and stay clean...
Most striking outpost for the addicts' mutual-aid method is Nevada State Prison. Authorities invited Founder Charles E. Dederich. 49 (never a drug addict himself, but a graduate of A.A.), to set up Synanon's system in the cell blocks and maximum freedom honor camp at Peavine, northwest of Reno. The result has been an unexpected bonus. Not only is Synanon taking hold with 18 addicts, but because the same personality weaknesses that drive some people to narcotics are also present in many nonaddict prisoners, the Synanon program at Nevada now covers twice as many convicts with...