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Richard Helms is director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but he apparently was not keeping tab on what his wife was up to. Until last week, that is, when he brought home a six-pack of beer. "Please don't do that again," scolded Mrs. Helms. An instant teetotaler? No, Mrs. Helms is a founder of a Washington, D.C., antipollution group dedicated to (among other things) stamping out throwaway containers that do not decompose...
...adults." All the same, the Robinsons have achieved a bigger goal: saving their relationship with Sue, a sophomore at the University of Washington, who now abhors most of the drug scene, especially "the dealers, who don't care about the poor kid on the street who gets a bum tab of acid." Who educated whom? The kids led the way, says Robinson...
...impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became a serious problem. Hundreds of youngsters suffered...
...Intrepid in 1967. His latest design is a beamy, white-and-gold sloop that stretches 63 ft. in length. Broad in her forward sections and slim in the stern, she has been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls down more smoothly toward the waterline, reducing excess weight...
...used for perhaps 100 flights, shuttles will sharply reduce the cost of putting men and materiel into space. That price now comes to more than $1,000 for every pound lifted into orbit by NASA's nonre-usable Saturn 5 boosters. Shuttles should reduce the tab to $50 per Ib. or less...