Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former drug addict, 1 would like to commend you for your excellent article about junkies [March 16]. At long last, someone is telling it like it is about a junkie's world. Although I was addicted to speed (Methedrine), and not heroin, most of my friends were junkies, and the man who turned me on was a junkie himself. I tried heroin a couple of times and never cared for it, but I saw what it did to my friends. They never completely recovered, and six of them are dead...
...parents, like the parents in your article, are upper middle class, and like the young people in your story, I started young. I had my first "hit" of speed at the age of 15. I spent two years in the hell of addiction, and I quit. Even now I still wish for speed-I can imagine how hard it is for those children...
...mile from the ship. Inexplicably, no other boats joined them, which meant that 15 men were still aboard, including Captain Donald Swann. An hour passed. Then the astonished men in the lifeboats saw smoke belch from the Eagle's stack, and the freighter took off at its top speed of about 19 knots. Some thought it had to be a bad joke. Only a few surmised the real truth: the Columbia Eagle had been taken over by mutineers; the abandon-ship signal had been a ruse...
...southpaw, Nickens relies on control rather than speed. He tries to confuse the batter with curves and changes of speed rather than fasthails. Nickens led the team with 40 strikeouts in 49 innings last season...
...silver screen is somewhat more ambivalent. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing with film; I'm just in it." "Being in film" for Horovitz involves writing the screenplay for The Strawberry Statement for the Cames Film Festival and work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival via the CRIMSON and Horovitz is simply uncomplicated and improbable. "I was sought after to do movies. I saw Kunen's CRIMSON ar-ticle and got it to an agent to make...