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A Journal of Better Living
The Evert Family
Editorial
December, 1972 Vol. 25, No. 12
All in the Family
When people are members of the same family, various evidences show that they are related. They may look alike, they
may act alike, they may think alike.
In our day many kinds of drug use cause public concern.
Attention is being given to marijuana, to heroin, to glue sniffing, to LSD, to other drug problems.
But another member of the same family receives comparatively little attention, although increasing evidence indicates
that drinking and illicit drug use are interrelated.
Another evidence has now appeared in the extensive study
by Drs. Henry Wechsler and Denise Thum of The Medical
Foundation, Inc., in Boston.
The study was of teen-age drinking and drug use in two
cities near Boston—Quincy, an industrial area, and Brookline,
a higher-class residential area. Students in both cities were
asked to report on their use of alcoholic beverages as well as
their use of drugs for nonmedical purposes. Drinking habits
were listed in rising order from abstainers to heavy use of
hard liquor. City A is Quincy; Town B is Brookline.
Percentage Using Other Drugs
Hard Liquor Use
Drugs
Marijuana
City A
Town B
Barbiturates
City A
Town B
Amphetamines
City A
Town B
Glue Sniffing
City A
Town B
Cough Syrup
City A
Town B
LSD
City A
Town B
Heroin
City A
Town B
Beer, wine
Abstainers
only
Used, not
drunk
1-4 times
drunk
5 or more
drunk
%
3
1
%
9
24
%
6
21
%
36
66
%
59
79
1
1
3
6
4
5
12
14
29
40
1
1
3
2
3
5
14
15
26
32
4
4
7
6
6
4
11
8
19
11
2
2
4
1
5
2
12
7
17
10
1
1
4
3
2
1
8
7
15
21
1
0
1
3
0
0
5
0
8
4
Note particularly the fact that in all categories of drug use
the percentage of heavier drinkers using other drugs is considerably higher than that for abstainers, in some cases spectacularly so. In no case is it higher for abstainers.
It seems evident that when a young person begins to drink,
this begins to open the door to the use of other drugs as well.
The use of one drug tends to a multi-drug use. The various
drug dependencies are interrelated, all in the same family.
Also this points up the necessity of recognizing that the use
of alcohol is causing a major drug problem, one greater than
any other drug problem in the United States. It affects the
lives of more people than does the use of any other drug.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, alcohol
is a factor in half (30,000) of highway fatalities each year; it
causes economic loss of $15 billion; it is related to half of the
five million arrests each year (11/2 million for public drunkenness); it is involved in half of all homicides and a fourth of all
suicides. Over-all, it afflicts some nine million Americans.
No other drug problem can even approach this one either
in prevalence or virulence. When various drug dependencies
are attd and solutions sought, it must be remembered
that thine is a member,:, the family, the worst one of all.
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Journal of Better Living
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Editor Francis A. Soper
Assistant Editor
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L. R. Hixson, Milo Sawvel
In This Issue
2 All in the Family
Editoria
3 I Destroyed Christmas
Bruce Clint
4 It's Up to Us (poem)
Mildred N. Hoye
5 Frans Hals—A Checkered Life
Phyllis Somervillt
6 Listening to the Voices of Youth
Matthew P. Dumont, M.E
8 "King Heroin"
Picture Feature
10 Game of Fancy Dominoes
Ted Alexande
11 Not So Young—Still Winning
12 TEENS—LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL
The Evert Family—"First Family of Tennis"
Interview by Adon Taf
Dialogue One
Ruben Gage
"I Want to Live"
by Blendena L. Sonnichser
16 Who Can You Turn To?
Evelyn L. McCort;
17 Whiskey, Water Back (poem)
Lisa Slate
18 Guys, Gals, and Guilt
Shirley M. Dever
19 COLOR SPECIAL "Listen's" Newspaper in Miniature
23 David Cassidy
In the Next Issue
• Janet Lynn, skater, has been described as
"poetry in motion." This motion has won
awards in world championships and the Olympics.
• "Putting Out the Fires" in Pennsylvania—
"Listen" for January tells how this is being done.
• Life can be beautiful, but it all depends on
how you look at it—in cartoons next month.
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After seeing the crumpled bodies, I started
running from the sight and smell of death.
Bruce Cline
No. 108094, State Prison of Southern Michigan
Two days before Christmas, I smashed into the side of
another car and killed the parents of three small children.
For those three orphans—as well as for my own children
—the holiday season will always be a time of bitter memories. Christmas is easy to destroy. I did it with two beers
and a moment of inattention.
It never occurs to any of us that we might be the instrument of someone's death. Certainly it never occurred to me
when I left work that night. The rush of Christmas customers had kept me late at the clothing store where I was a
salesman, and shoppers still clogged the streets as I drove
home. Sometime during the hectic day, I had picked up a
nervous headache. And by the time I'd made it through the
worst of the traffic, I also could feel burning knots of tension
in my stomach.
When I came to a neighborhood tavern, I stopped almost
automatically. I had two beers. No more. My headache
eased, and the knots dissolved. Perhaps my reflexes also
dissolved a little bit, but at least I was relaxed.
When I got back into my car, I even remembered to
fasten my seat belt. And when I pulled back onto the road
that led to the main highway, I was happy to see that snow
had started to fall. It would be nice for the kids.
I glanced down at the speedometer. I was going a little
over the limit, but just the five or ten miles over it that most
of us drive. I didn't worry about slowing down.
When I came to the main intersection, I didn't even
think about the stop sign that I'd seen so many times before.
Then the other car was right in front of me, and it was too
late to stop!
LISTEN, December, 1972 / 3
A man and woman were inside—a young couple. They
seemed very close, frozen there just across the hood of my
car. In the eternity of the horrible moment, their faces were
burned into my memory—nice faces that looked only slightly
startled, not the faces of people who knew they were about
to be killed.
I shifted my weight to stab at the brakes, but it was too
late. I slammed straight into the side of the other car!
My body wrenched at the seat belt as it tried to tear free
and shoot on through the windshield. I was just beginning
to feel fear when both cars began dancing across the highway with a crazy life of their own—and it was too late for
fear. Even if there had been time, the people in the other
car couldn't have felt any more than I did—only that terrible
numbed shock that spins rapidly toward unconsciousness as
the car's glass, knobs, and tearing metal begin chewing you
to death.
For an instant, I could see the other car ahead of me as
it went up on end, spinning off toward one side. Both cars
seemed to be rolling through the air with a slow and deliberate heaviness. The thought was half-formed in my mind that
this was good because no one would be hurt if we moved
slowly.
After what seemed a very long time, the grinding and
Ifs Up tolls
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the screeching of metal stopped. My car was back on its
wheels again. Only one headlight was working, but it was
pointed directly at the car I had just hit. That car was also
upright—but it was crumpled like a deflated football.
It took me a couple of minutes to get out of the car. I
was numb, faraway, and couldn't remember how to work the
seat belt. I imagined that my legs were broken. Then I was
loose and stumbling toward the other car.
I wish I had never looked inside; but it would undoubtedly save endless lives on the highway if everyone
could look into a car like that, even if he weren't responsible
for the accident. Right then I would have felt more like
a murderer if they had looked more like people. But there
was little of humanity left about their crumpled, broken
bodies.
I turned and ran and was sick while I ran. There was no
question of being able to help them. All I could think of
was getting away from that place and from the sight and the
smell of death.
I ran until I came to a service station three or four blocks
away. There was a phone booth there, and I hid myself inside it. I would have kept going if I had had the strength,
but it wouldn't have done any good. With the numbness
and shock wearing off, I couldn't hide from the knowledge
of what I had done. I knew it; still it was so hard to believe.
This is me, I kept telling myself. I have a wife and two
kids who are waiting for me to come home. The day after
tomorrow will be Christmas, and that horror doesn't really
exist down the road.
I'd had two bottles of beer and could walk and talk as
well as anyone. I wasn't one of those irresponsible drunks
you always read about in the papers. I'd never even had a
parking ticket. Kill someone? Other people did that sometimes, but not me or any of my friends.
Even when I put my hand to the blood as it stiffened on
my pants leg, I couldn't believe it. And when the ambulances howled by outside, I tried to pretend that I didn't
know where they were going and that they had nothing to
do with me.
But I did know with a terrifying certainty where the
ambulances were going—and what they would find in that
car on the highway. Yet a lifetime of being just a normal
person like anyone else, a lifetime of not hurting others—let
alone killing them—wouldn't let me accept it.
I don't know how long it was before I left the phone
booth and made my way back downtown. But it was four
hours after the accident when the police arrested me for
leaving the scene.
That was a year ago, and the tragic effects of that single
instant of inattention are still felt by many people—by my
family and by the parents and children of the young couple
I killed.
Perhaps it will be another year before I am out of prison.
In the meantime, I realize more clearly every day exactly
what I did—and I remember it most clearly at Christmastime. I think of the crushed packages that were tied with
silver-and-gold string and stamped with pictures of Santa
Claus. I remember a Christmas doll without a head, soaked
with the blood of the parents who bought it.
Killing someone by accident or through carelessness is
a thing that always happens to the other guy. This time I
was the guy, but the next time it could be you or a person
you know. There are a lot of empty graves and a lot of
empty cells in this world; it takes only a careless instant
to fill either one.
—Reprinted by permission from December 17, 1963,
issue of Family Weekly magazine.
Note From History
Phyllis Somerville
Frans HalSA Checkered
Life
Frans Hals, the Dutch portrait
painter (1580?-1666), is now recognized
as the world's greatest portrait painter of
all time. His work was largely ignored for
two centuries after his death, but in recent
years a single painting would bear a price
tag of $350,000! Art critics today put Hals
next to Rembrandt as head of the Dutch
school, and some even call him the greatest
of all painters for truth and character.
Hals was born in Antwerp, Belgium, but
his parents moved to Haarlem, The Netherlands. There he studied art and became one
of the chief guards, director of an art school,
and chief of the painters' guild. His first
dated painting was done in 1613, "The Banquet of the Officers of the Haarlem Corps of
Arguebusiers of St. George."
The founder of the art known as genre,
Hals set himself as a first to depict realistically everyday life. Other paintings were:
"The Jolly Trio," "Herring Vendor," "Fool
Playing Lute," "The Laughing Cavalier,"
"Hille Bobbe," "Gypsy Girl," and "Yonkers
Tramp and His Sweetheart."
Some of these originals and their replicas
are hanging at the Metropolitan Art Museum of New York. "Hille Bobbe" is in the
Berlin Museum. In public and private galleries his works invite admiration. "Fool
Playing Lute," hanging at Ryksmuseum in
Amsterdam, is considered by many as the
best character portrait ever painted. Hals
didn't paint beauties; rather he portrayed
the everyday people he met on the streets.
In the town hall of Haarlem eighty-four
ladies and gentlemen look down from eight
great canvasses on the walls. These were
produced in his most brilliant period around
1633 when he used brilliant colors and had
a quick grasp of the fleeting expressions of
his subjects. He seemed to use bold, broad
strokes of the brush and a technique which
the French admired in his paintings.
His earlier pictures showed happy,
laughing faces. Strong and healthy models
were used, and he used bright colors in
portraying their vivid and striking likenesses.
But later his paintings took on a drab
color, and this grayness seems to reflect the
sad, poverty-stricken old man that he was
when he died. His last years were supported by the charity of the town. His was
a checkered life, much like his paintings—
of bold contrasts of light and dark shade.
He had come from a well-to-do family, one
highly thought of, but more and more he
found the rollicking life of the tavern and
street to his liking. The later pictures show
the company he was keeping—the tavern
crowd. His models were the singers, jesters,
pot girls (those whom we'd call barmaids),
and various tavern heroes. This love of the
tavern life reduced him to poverty.
In his earlier subjects he caught the humor and truth of their character, just as
much as the true character of those he later
painted—the tavern crowd. He went with
that crowd and died in that crowd—a pau-01
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LISTEN, December, 1972 / 5
LisiBning to the
Voices of Youth
Matthew P. Dumont, M.D.
Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems
National Institute of Mental Health
Student unrest has become one of the major topics of
conversation in American homes, according to a Harris
poll. Nationwide television shows on prime time are devoted to the generation gap. Popular magazines run picture
stories of the youth rebellion. Professional journals, conferences of scholars, major research grants, movies, books,
songs, speeches—every conceivable form of communication seems to have become dominated by an image of
defiant youth!
The reaction of adults has ranged from outrage to idolatry. Most of us have adopted a rhetoric of moderation in
talking of the young. Like a presidential address which says
that dissent is healthy as long as it remains ineffective, we
tend to feel that the idealism and commitment and energy
and resourcefulness of the young are fine as long as they are
kept within very reasonable bounds. Our patience immediately runs out if property is damaged.
To round out the moderate stance, we are even prepared to listen to the young, to put a few youth onto our
advisory boards and commissions and government agencies.
Just a few, you understand, so that we can profit from their
refreshing wisdom on draft policies or voluntary action
programs or whatever, without upsetting any applecarts.
Regardless of how we feel about youth—that is, regardless of whether we look upon them with fear and terror on
one hand or romantic exhilaration on the other, or with that
benign but firm limit-setting of the mythical ideal parent
—we are all missing the point. In our endless discussions
about youth—what they want, or what we should do with
them, or how to respond to them—we completely ignore
what they have to say. And the reason we ignore them is
precisely because we are so preoccupied with them. Sounds
like a paradox, doesn't it? Perhaps it sounds foolish to sug6 / LISTEN, December, 1972
gest that when our attention is completely absorbed with
someone, we may not be paying attention to him. But it is
quite possible, and it's one of the most infuriating things
you can do to a human being.
The film called "The Titticut Follies" was banned in
Massachusetts and shown elsewhere with great caution because of the nakedness it depicts. It wasn't the nakedness of
the human body that caused so much concern. It was the
nakedness of an institution that left viewers of the film
stunned and shaking. John Marshall's camera recorded the
daily life in a hospital for the criminally insane. It captured
the endless dehumanization, regimentation, humiliation, and
even brutalization of "patienthood" in such an institution.
It demonstrated with savage honesty what psychiatry has
finally begun to realize—that the greatest part of the disability of mental illness comes from the way it is treated,
rather than from something inherent to the illness itself.
This was not the result of sadism or unethical behavior
at Bridgewater State Hospital. That would have been easy
to deal with. It had more to do with the subtle, unquestioned, and cherished institutional practices which resulted
in people being treated as things of little importance. When
his dignity, privacy, and self-esteem are lost—when his food
and clothing are characterless—when the events of his day
are marked by meaningless activities—then a man has little
else to identify himself with than his own scream of rage.
In the midst of all this, depicted with an integrity and
artistry that forces us to understand what institutions can
do to people, we are witness to a case conference. The patient is brought before the psychiatrist, the psychologist, the
social worker, and the nurse. His behavior will determine
the clinical decisions of the treatment team. His speech and
mannerisms, his feelings, his energy level, the relevance of
his speech, his judgment—everything is minutely observed.
The patient says, quietly, sullenly, but with determination,
"This place is making me sicker."
The doctor, with competence, assuredness, and that peculiar combination of intimacy and distance, says in response,
"Why should we want to make you sicker?"
"I don't know and I don't care, but I'm getting more sick
every day in here."
The doctor, parading his skills as an interviewer and
diagnostician, feeds open-ended questions back to the patient. The patient is confronted with the gentle attentiveness of this powerful man who listens so carefully but does
not appreciate what he, the patient, is saying. Then the
patient begins to shout, to become angry, to rave, and finally
to scream with every fiber of his being: "This place is making me sicker." And he is dragged off by attendants, leaving
the team to discuss the flooding of primitive effect, the
emergent paranoia, the need for more medicine, et cetera.
They had listened with great care to the patient, but not
for a moment did they care whether or not what the patient
was saying was true. It was important for them to determine
whether or not the patient was paranoid. It was not important that it might indeed be true that the place was making
him sicker.
Everything the patient said or could have said were the
words of a patient and were used as a mechanism of diagnosis. It would have been impossible for the doctor to have
learned anything from that patient—including the truth
about the institution.
I am suggesting that it is precisely in that way that we
listen to the young. CBS specials and Life magazine's fullcolor reports invoke the language of the young with its
hip, pseudo-black argot as anthropologists would describe
the chatter of an aborigine tribe—interesting, occasionally
comprehensible, but certainly not relevant to Western civilization.
And when we do bring a few kids into our conference
rooms, we defer to them as if they were Delphic oracles. We
listen with exaggerated interest, nod our heads to each
other when a particularly "mature" utterance is made, and
congratulate them for their brilliance. Afterwards, we talk
a good deal about the consultation we've had with the young
people, but we generally have forgotten what they said. We
listen to the voices of youth as the voices of youth, just as
the psychiatrist listened to the words of the patient as the
words of a patient. In neither case is there the quality of
listening we proffer someone who has something to say that
is meaningful to us, that has impact upon us, that causes us
to behave differently.
What, then, are we to do? I see two alternatives.
One is to move over. There is really no reason why
young people should not be allowed some control of institutions. Must we assume, for instance, that if students influence the nature of their educations they will necessarily
ignore all the richness and beauty and utility of our heritage
of art and wisdom? If students had a voice in determining
what courses to attend, would they opt exclusively for
karate, electronic rock, and sensitivity training? Do we have
so little respect for the human condition that we feel we
must force-feed Bach and Plato and information about the
stars and matter and man himself? And is there no room in
the education of the young for knowledge about making
films, or about walking through the woods, or about being
alone, or about love and marriage?
Recreation is another institutional arrangement in which
we might allow youth a larger voice. What have we ceded to
ourselves and to them as a source of exhilaration and refreshment but arteriosclerotic mechanisms of hitting balls
or sailing boats or bathing ourselves?
We are approaching a time in history when the use of
leisure time may become our most critical mental health
concern. Dare we not allow our youth to experiment for
themselves what new forms the enjoyment of time might
assume?
There might indeed be opportunities for us to move
aside more often and allow young people to influence the
destinies of institutions for themselves and for us. Education and recreation cry out for new initiative, and there
may be other institutions even more sacred to the vested
interests of mature men which could profit from young
leadership.
But it is the other alternative which I find exciting. You
see, I don't particularly like the idea of the old moving over
for the young, unless it is necessary. I am not sure it has to
be. People who are no longer young and whose only concern is the continuance of a youth rebellion are copping out
in the most cowardly way. There is no reason why we should
not be capable of listening to the voices of youth within
ourselves. What, after all, does youth say? It asks, "Why
are you so faithless to your own values?" It asks, "Why are
you seduced by meaningless complexity?" It asks, "Why
are you so righteous about your vested interests?" It asks,
"Why do you lie?" "Why are you so unhappy?"
We can ask these questions and look for answers to them
within the fabric of our own private and public lives. Do
we realize how foolish we look when we puff ourselves up
indignantly and defend our toys—our monstrous toys—
when there is work to be done? Do we really need the youth
to tell us to feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, and
shelter the exposed, before we fling ourselves to the heavens
like some kind of maniacal child? Could it be possible that
the reason we are mistrusted by so many young people is
not because of our maturity, but because of our lack of it?
We have not made them yearn to be like us. Instead of
showing them what wisdom and courage and compassion
can be commanded by them when they achieve majority, we
have shown them only power. We should be able to recapture the bold, impatient, impertinent stirrings within ourselves, and with our experience and capacity to act—stagger
the imaginations of the young.
Instead of talking about them with rage or terror or
romantic nonsense, we should be able to talk to them with
our behavior which would very quietly and very clearly say,
"It's good to be over 30."
LISTEN, December, 1972 / 7
"King Heroin"
The whole idea of the play emerged from the sensitive mind of Al Fann,
TV soap opera actor and off-Broadway player, who was moved by an event
in the papers. Fann read of a 12-year-old boy who died of an overdose of
heroin. The incident shook him to his roots; but instead of feeling helpless, Fann
mobilized. He summoned his playwright skills, assembled a group of devoted
rank amateurs, and hammered "King Heroin" into shape.
The public is being needled about drug addiction—addiction to the "hard
stuff"—and the powerful instrument in this case is a stageful of actors. They
are victims of a bad scene, dependent on Lucky, that despised junkie who
lurks on the streets of Harlem. The hooked ones include punks and prostitutes
and just everyday people, too weak and demoralized to resist.
"The play had to be hard-hitting because you can't pussyfoot around with
the drug problem. In the play I try to tell the whole story as I have known it
to be," Fann comments.
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6. In the Moonlight Bar, Mabel
and Rita battle for the attentions of Adam, and Mabel pulls
a knife.
7. The Weasel threatens The
Hawk after the cop demands to
know the pusher's clientele. Lt.
Hawkins grasps The Weasel's
hand and loosens the knife.
8. Painfully, Rita undergoes the
pangs of drug withdrawal as
her mother, holding tight, tries
to share the emotional chaos.
9. Mark's death unnerves The
Hawk (right) who is restrained
by Sgt. Murphy. Also close to
the youth, Lucky is hit hard by
his death.
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1. Two members of the Al Fann
Ensemble rehearse their lines
for the show, which is packed
full of real-life characterization.
2. The notorious Lucky slips
Benny the Cat (left) a package
of heroin in his callous hustler
manner.
3. Twelve-year-old Mark is already hooked on the hard stuff
and depends on the junkie's
sample.
4. In a social agency, Mrs. Johnson threatens her daughter Rita
who wants to conceal her habit
from the caseworker.
5. Lt. Hawkins, known as The
Hawk, is scolded by a teacher
for failing to alert the community about the peril of drugs.
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10. The Hawk accuses Lucky
of complicity in Mark's death
and dramatically vents his feelings with a sharp slap on the
face.
11. Armed with a chair, Lucky
strikes back at the lieutenant.
12. Sgt. Murphy and Bessy
block The Hawk, who wants to
finish off Lucky once and for all.
13. Semiconscious and bloody,
Lucky is dragged back to his
cell by Sgt. Murphy and Mabel.
T1-...-- T
When you drink and drive, it's a—
Ted Alexander
Game of Fancy Dominoes
A young physician and his wife and baby were driving
home one evening when their car was hit by another motorist. The young wife and the child were instantly killed, and
the doctor's hands and arms were so injured that he will be
paralyzed for life. His career ended that night, but more
important, he lost the two most precious people in his life.
The other driver was not injured, but he was so drunk that
he didn't know he had been driving on the wrong side of
the road.
In another tragic accident, a young construction worker
stopped at a barroom for a few cool beers. Over the protests
of the bartender and friends who realized his condition, he
got into his car and raced headlong into an oncoming car,
killing the driver and her unborn child, and severely injuring a neighbor's child riding with her. The young construction worker walked away unhurt.
He was arrested for "careless driving" because he was under the influence of alcohol and was not really responsible in
mind for what he did. The Registry of Motor Vehicles took
away his driver's license for life, and without that he lost
his job. Eventually he lost his home and his savings, and his
wife and children suffered—all this because of an afternoon
when he drank too much.
The courts ruled it "involuntary manslaughter," but it
can be thought of as murder. No matter what it is called,
two persons were dead and the lives of others ruined, just
by careless drinking.
That small slip of paper in your billfold makes you a
member of man's most privileged society. It guarantees you
the right to drive a motor vehicle. But when you take a
drink and then take to the highway, you become another
fool adding to the carnage. A person so selfish that he
doesn't care about his own life, the lives of his passengers,
or the lives of other, completely innocent, people on the
road, doesn't deserve this guaranteed right.
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A person who takes one small glass of an alcoholic beverage, a beverage with even the lowest alcoholic content, is
gambling away his life and the lives of others in a game
of fancy dominoes; and the winner is Death—sudden, horrible, mangled death.
As you drive along the highway, one of the drivers in the
next fifty cars that will pass you will be drunk. And that
drunk may be an alcoholic, making him a dangerous threat
to other motorists.
Whether he has been drinking or is an alcoholic, because
he has been drinking his reaction time has been slowed as
much as 15 to 20 percent. And it has been estimated that
his chances of having an accident are 25 percent greater
than if he were sober.
Seeing the road and seeing you are his greatest problems,
because alcohol reduces the optic abilities. The drinker has
difficulty, first in focusing and, second, in the mental ability
to judge quickly and react to what he is seeing. Last year
in nearly half of all the fatal accidents on our highways, the
drinker was to blame.
Sixteen thousand more Americans died in highway accidents last year than died in the Vietnam war in the past five
years. And in most instances, none of these people would
have been involved in an accident at all if a driver had not
been drinking.
The problem of the drinking driver has reached incredible magnitude. It costs over $500 million every month to
pay the economic damages alone. This includes medical
expenses, insurance costs, and property damage.
According to figures released by the National Highway
Safety Bureau, most fatal accidents occur between the hours
of nine p.m. and midnight, and odds run approximately
eight to one that involved in these accidents will be a person who has been drinking heavily. Only 9 percent of the
morning rush hour accidents involve the drinker, but twelve
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hours later the rate climbs to an alarming 90 percent!
As early as 1924, safety experts realized that the "social
drinker" was involved in most highway deaths and accidents. Educational programs and safety campaigns pointed
out to the public that a combination of drinking and driving is usually fatal. The law stepped in with stiff penalties,
and slogans were made up, telling everyone "If You Drink
—Don't Drive" and "Make Your Next One for the Road
—Coffee," et cetera.
Safety engineers say that the center of the problem is the
true alcoholic, but that any person who drives a car after
drinking even a small amount, is more accident-prone than
a driver completely sober.
Government studies of drivers in California show that
alcoholics as motorists were involved in as much as 62 percent of all accidents involved with drinking. Because of this
fact, road safety consultants, chiefs of motor vehicle law
enforcement departments, and insurance company officials
agree almost unanimously that the time is very near when
confirmed alcoholics will be denied driver's licenses. Certainly the alcoholic is more dangerous to himself and to
others than the person who may be given to physical seizures, such as the diabetic.
There are at least six million known alcoholics in the
United States, according to the American Medical Association. In the State of New York alone, where there are some
700,000 known alcoholics, 80 percent of them have driver's
licenses. Yet, in the entire nation there is not one law that
revokes the driver's license of a known alcoholic.
A sensible, thinking young person, proud of possessing
a privileged driver's license, knows that there is no need to
complicate the matter of driving safely by taking any form
of alcoholic beverage and by so doing, endangering his own
life and the innocent lives of others. To do so could be dead
wrong!
At an age when most men have slowed
life down, Virgil Sturgill is still going strong.
Recently he received the winner's trophy from the National Road Runners Club
of America. It symbolizes the national twomile cross-country championship for men
over seventy. Sturgill, of Asheville, North
Carolina, holds the world record (6:55) in
the mile for runners seventy and over.
He says he can usually do right around
that seven-minute mark. That's pretty swift
for someone who's 74 years old.
Sturgill became interested in jogging in
1964 while a professor of English at Baltimore (Maryland) Junior College. After a
physical checkup, he was advised to walk
and jog at every opportunity. Now he runs
in competitive events every chance he gets
—which he says isn't too often.
"Running should be fun—and it still is to
me despite my many years," says Sturgill.
"My usual daily workout—fast walking,
jogging, and finishing with a 'kick' during
the last 440 yards—keeps me in good condition for both the one- and two-mile races."
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mil The Evert Family "First Fam.il
66.
Interview by Adon Taft
Tennis"
Grass is a popular topic in the Jimmy
Evert home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Not the kind you smoke, but the kind
you play tennis on.
The Everts are America's first family
of tennis, and the head of the household does not believe the trip to the top
on the tennis courts can be taken on
drugs. His wife, three daughters, and
two sons agree because they have
learned that when Jimmy Evert says
something about tennis, he knows what
he is talking about.
Jimmy's name may be hard for you
to place, although it has a familiar
ring. It's because his daughters, Chris
and Jeanne, are the ones who are
famous with the general public.
But to the tennis insiders, Jimmy is
well-known as a former tennis star at
Notre Dame who in 1941 was the national junior indoor champion and who
came within an eyelash of making it
big on the men's circuit (quarter finals
of the men's nationals). Now 48 years
old, Jimmy has been manager-pro at
the Fort Lauderdale public courts since
1948. And tennis people in Florida, one
of the two or three top states for the
sport, have great respect for the man
and his coaching.
His attractive wife, Colette, stays
slim by playing tennis "about three
times a week." And she logs many
miles driving her brood to tournaments.
Their oldest boy, Drew, 18, came
within one set of the state junior boys
title in the summer of 1971, and is
ranked nationally.
John, 10, ranks No. 9 in the state
12-under division.
It was 17-year-old Christine Marie
who made the Evert name a household word, however, when she blitzed
Great Britain in the 1971 Wightman
Cup matches at Cleveland, captured
the Eastern Grass Courts and national
junior girls titles, and then went on
to oppose Billie Jean King in the semifinals at Forest Hills. She has since beat
Billie Jean, led the United States to
another Wightman Cup victory, and
given Evonne Goolagong a run for her
money in the semifinals at Wimbledon,
a loss she recently avenged in Cleveland.
Now 14-year-old Jeanne is threatening to outdo her famous sister, whose
two-handed backhand has become a
trademark. Even prettier than Chris,
Jeanne is "a better player than I was
at her age," according to her big sister.
Jeanne won the national 14-under
title last year and beat Rosemary
Casals, the country's No. 2 woman
player, in the Tennis Club Women's
International.
Completing the family is four-yearold Clare, who goes around swinging
a fly swatter in preparation for getting
hold of a racket next summer when
she will begin the routine that has paid
such dividends for her older brothers
and sisters.
J
There is no doubt that Jimmy is the
man responsible for the success of the
Evert family both at tennis and in the
game of life. One of four sons of a
poor Chicago floral arranger, Jimmy is
a strict disciplinarian. He is a quiet,
deeply religious man who has never
uttered a swearword in his life and
who leads the family in saying grace
before dinner each evening. It is out
of this religious background that Jimmy
developed his disciplinarian attitude
which he himself describes as "oldfashioned conservative, right out of the
Middle Ages."
On the tennis courts that means two
hours of practice at Holiday Park every
day after school for each of the children except Clare. In addition, the
training rules call for three hours of
practice on weekends, and four hours
daily during the summer—unless they
are sick, it is raining, or they've just
competed in a tough tournament.
At home it means balanced meals
of meat, potatoes, and vegetables.
Bedtime is at 10 p.m., with a weekend
curfew of 11:30. No slumber parties,
because "the kids would be worthless
the next day," explains Mrs. Evert.
On or off the court, there is no smoking for the tennis-playing Evert family,
because they all know it would slow
them down and hurt their game.
What does Chris think of the training rules? "When I was 12 or 13, I
used to think I might be missing something," she says. "But I don't anymore.
I can't say that the practice is really
fun, but the tournaments are—especially the traveling and meeting peo-
pie. It's just an enjoyable way of life.
I love the perfection part of it too, the
precision, the running around, the exercise."
The pert young girl who has captured the hearts of the world's tennis
fans adds that, "I'm going to turn pro
as soon as I can, which probably will
be next January, and that's something
I couldn't have done without a strict
training schedule."
Chris hopes to play on the pro circuit
about seven years and then get married and have three children. Once
married, she says she would quit tennis "completely," although she would
hope that her husband knew how to
play the game.
"There are a lot of things more important than tennis," she says. "Tennis
is so materialistic. Marriage and family
are more important, and so is religion—
and love. I mean, if I don't get married, what am I going to do when
I'm 30?"
Page 12, Chris shows the unusual two-hand backhand, and
the concentration, that carries her
to decisive victories. Last year at
16, she was the youngest woman
ever to compete in Wightman Cup
matches.
Page 13, The "First Family of
Tennis" includes (clockwise) fouryear-old Clare, Jeanne 14, Dad
Jimmy, Mom Colette, Drew 18,
Chris 17, and ten-year-old John.
Below, Two hours of tennis
every school day, three on weekends, four during the summer—
and Chris was on her way.
It was one of those formal Fort
Lauderdale receptions. Classmates, city officials, and Governor
Reubin Askew turned out to say,
"We're proud of you, Chris."
Ruben Gage
Blendena L. Sonnichsen
"I
Want
to
Lye"
A year ago Christy Joy was living life to the fullest as a teen-ager.
She had high hopes and ambitions
as a student at Victor Valley College where she was studying painting. She was just 18 years old—the
time when life holds beautiful
promises of the future.
Christy Joy is a teen-ager in
Needles, California, who enjoys
helping other people. At Needles
High School she designed a set for
the senior class play, a Christmas
display, and decorations for homecoming activities. During her senior year, she was in charge of the
winning floats during the Marathon
Celebration.
Christy Joy is known as a happy,
peppy teen-ager who is a leader,
who works constructively at things
instead of waiting for someone
else to do the job.
Last year Christy became ill with
nephritis. In November the doctors
removed her kidneys that were
working at less than one tenth efficiency. To live, Christy Joy needs
a new kidney.
A kidney transplant operation
costs a lot of money—$20,000 to
be exact—plus a $6,000 kidney
machine in case the operation
fails. Added to the cost of the operation, a long, dangerous, and
monotonous convalescent period
follows.
To defend her body against foreign invaders like microbes and
bacteria, the defenses also react
against foreign tissue like a new
kidney. Thus Christy must be given
immunosuppressive drugs, drugs
that lower the body's defenses so
that the new kidney will be able
to establish itself.
Since the removal of her kidneys
Christy has the poisons removed by
a hemodialysis machine. Twice a
week, on Mondays and Thursdays,
she spends eight hours each day
at the hospital, her veins tied to the
machine while her blood is pumped
through it to remove the accumulation of poisons.
Christy Joy is an attractive young
lady with an optimistic outlook on
life that has given her a legion of
friends. This optimism is a big factor in her fight for survival, for
Christy has found the beautiful
promise of life, and she is determined to enjoy it. Christy wants to
live.
In a nearby hospital 18-year-old
Freda Karr lies motionless in her
bed. Freda is waiting to die. She
got her "thrills" from smoking pot
at the age of 15, ingesting countless pills of all types, shooting
"stag" into her veins, and getting
high on LSD.
By the time Freda was 17, everything she'd tried had lost its kicks.
She looked for something more effective, more powerful. She found
it in cocaine cut with phencyclidine,
an animal tranquilizer. From her
first contact with this little-known
but deadly drug, Freda was in a
coma. That was six months ago.
Now she lies without moving; her
mind is gone, her sight damaged.
Almost bald, and with open sores
over most of her body, Freda is an
offensive and pitiful sight.
Deserted by her family and
friends, Freda seems to have in her
body some desperate will to live.
But there is no hope for Freda, just
as there is no hope for other young
people who, for reasons known
only to themselves, choose the drug
way of doing their thing. What
kind of future will they have? Who
will look after them, and care for
them when they cut themselves
away from the human race? And
what about their children? What
will the next generation produce?
Freda Karr wanted to live, but to
live her way with drugs. For her,
the beautiful promise of the future
has ended.
"I should get all of the credit."
"Why?"
"Because if it weren't for me you would
never get lit."
"That's true. But if it weren't for me you
wouldn't have anything to light in the first
place."
"What do you mean?"
"Who ever heard of smoking a stick? That's
rather ridiculous, isn't it?"
"Yeah, maybe so. But don't forget who's
got the head."
"That, my friend, is precisely the point;
what good is your head without my body?"
"You mean like putting the cart before the
horse?"
"A rather stale way of putting it."
"I still say I come first."
"That point is infallible. But what you
start, I finish."
"You can say that again."
"I beg your pardon?"
"No one ever calls me a four-letter word."
"I see no connection."
"Butt, man. That's what they call you, a
lousy butt."
"You're evading the issue with trivia."
"Sorry."
"I suggest a compromise."
"Good idea."
"You accept a third of the credit and—"
"A third! What do you mean a third? I
should get at least two thirds."
"Nonsense. You didn't allow me to finish.
You'll receive a third, the smoker a third, and
myself a third."
"Why should the smoker get any credit?"
"For that very reason."
"What reason?"
"Inhale."
"What's that got to do with what I said?"
"A simple pun, my friend."
"I'm not going to play any stupid word
games with you."
"Phonetics is a science."
"Yeah? Well you can take your phonetics
and—"
"Now, now! Let's not be a hothead."
"Just watch it. Don't forget who you're
talking to."
"Forgive me."
"That's more like it."
"And your opinion?"
"About what?"
"The compromise."
"Oh yeah. Well, I don't know. It sure seems
unfair."
"How is that?"
"I mean why should the smoker get any
of the credit? All he does is smoke."
"No, I smoke; he inhales. It's a matter of
semantics."
"There you go again."
"My apology. I forgot myself."
"He gets all of the pleasure while we do
all of the work."
"True, very true indeed. But you overlook
one fundamental fact, my friend."
"Yeah, what's that?"
"We don't need him."
When you need a sympathetic shoulder—
Who Can You
A teen-ager volunteer answers the hotline phone. Commented one participant, "If I can help one person who feels
desperate, it will be worth all the evenings I've given to the program."
Cathy is not a very pretty girl; but Greg likes her, and
they have been going steady for six months. Now she is
pregnant—Greg does not want to marry her. Cathy is afraid
to tell her parents; her dad has a violent temper. She's
thinking about suicide.
Tony is an athlete. He started playing Khoury League
baseball in the third grade and continued playing even into
high school. In the winter he is on the floor for the high
school basketball team.
This semester Tony bought his first car and has been on
the go almost every night. He's having a blast, but his
schoolwork is at an all-time low. He won't be allowed to
play the big game with Central next week. His dad is ready
to ground him, and his girl is pressuring him to take her to
a party in the country. Tony knows it is going to be wild
—marijuana, tossed salad (pills), and alcohol.
What can these young people do when troubles overwhelm them? Who can they turn to?
In Washington, Missouri, the Jaycee organization has
put students to work resolving these problems. In November of last year they established a hotline on a seven-day-aweek basis from 7 p.m. to midnight. Handling the phones
are teams of students from the 250 that signed up to help.
This is Level One. It is backed up by Level Two—local
adults who are specialists in medicine, counseling, drug information, and drug crisis intervention.
With a population of 8,000, Washington is strictly a
small town. The Jaycees help youth on a person-to-person
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basis, but they have available the assistance of Level Three
—established facilities such as Suicide, Inc., Acid Rescue,
Planned Parenthood, and a team of psychiatrists and others
from nearby Saint Louis.
The hotline is part of a program called SLANT—Student's League Against Narcotics Temptation. The idea
originated with the Florissant Valley Jaycees and later was
adopted as a statewide Jaycee program. At first there were
just lectures about drugs. Then the program was expanded
to include more education about drugs, a school poster contest, school assembly programs featuring police and exaddict speakers, a countywide seminar with an FBI narcotics
agent, and adult education groups.
This active program was so effective that student participation naturally followed and the hotline was set up.
Chairman of the Jaycee's drug education committee, Tom
Hartbauer feels that as young men-21 to 35 years—the
Jaycees are able to identify with youth and become involved
in their problems.
The hotline philosophy is to remain neutral on all calls.
Information is given in a way that the caller can make his
own decision. Teen-agers are encouraged to call back if they
need further guidance. The program does not try to solve
drug problems; it acts more like a sounding board—to help
young people sort out their feelings.
Hotline volunteers accept calls on all personal problems
—dating, parents, school, pet peeves. Drug abuse calls account for only a minimum number each week. Parents are
Evelyn L. McCarty
Turn To?
Whiskey
Water Back
Lisa Slater
Two businessmen sat at a table next to mine today.
"Shall we order lunch now?" I overheard one say.
"Not yet," the other replied with a wink.
"First, I would like to relax with a drink."
"Fine! I'll have a martini, and you, Jack?"
"My usual, John—
Whiskey, water back."
"Been a long time, Jack, how's the family?"
"All right, I suppose, John, that's except for Emily."
"Your beautiful wife! Why, what's the matter?"
"Dumb woman's drinking booze as if it were water."
"Too bad! I'll have another. You, Jack?"
"Sure thing, John—
Whiskey, water back."
Mike Brewer, cochairman of the hotline program, conducts
one of the training sessions for the volunteers.
encouraged to call for drug information and help in understanding their children's attitudes.
Volunteers working with "Drug Crisis Intervention"
phase of the hotline offer to stay with a user who is high,
take him to the hospital for life-saving treatment (as in the
case of an overdose or coma ), or provide later counseling
as needed.
The first training sessions for the hotline used actul- ' calls
from other areas. The volunteers answered the tapec, calls,
and then the group criticized the answer or enlarged on it
and adults offered encouragement or better answers. Reactions soon became spontaneous, and the volunteers were
able to turn direct requests for advice into thought-provoking answers like, "What I would do is not important at this
point; it's what you would do."
It is hoped that in the future more parents and adults will
be involved—people with a practical approach to youth
and a real interest in them. The adults act as chaperons,
keeping order and supervising. They step in on calls when
requested.
What is the public's opinion of the Jaycees' program?
Generally good, but without much personal involvement as
yet. Many adults do not recognize that youth have problems;
they just don't think such involvement is necessary.
It's the first time a small town like Washington, Missouri,
has tried the hotline approach. The Jaycees are hoping that,
given a chance to face their problems and solve them, youth
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will not turn to narcotics to get a "good feeling."
"Business just hasn't been good these days," John said.
"I know what you mean! I'm going in the red.
Can it be that you have the same problem I've got?"
"Well just today, I learned my best salesman's a sot."
"Yes, but we're not alone. One more, Jack?"
"Of course, John—
Whiskey, water back."
"Then, there's my V.P. I've more than a hunch
He's not eating. He's drinking his lunch.
And that pretty secretary. The one called Jeannie—
For her coffee breaks, she drinks a martini."
"The world is full of lushes! Have another, Jack."
"Right on, John—
Whiskey, water back."
"Shay, John, do you know what I think?
Our firms just can't afford people who drink!
We'll end up bankrupt, both you and me."
"You are sho right! Let's have another, Jack."
"I'm game, John—
Whiskey, water back."
"I'm gonna fire the whole shebang and start over!
Jack, I'm gonna get me a shtaff who'll shtay shober!"
"Shplendid idea!" Jack agrees, trying to smother a
loud hic.
"There's no place in business for a alcoholic!"
"RRRighto! John—
Whishkey, water back."
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Shirley M. Dever
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I know a girl who wears a haunted look. She's extremely
attractive, holds a full-charge bookkeeping position, dates,
and lives in a modern apartment. On the surface everything
seems to be going for her. But underneath something is
Tool bugging her. Guilt!
Money is a big thing in Denise's life because she comes
from a poor family. Her earliest recollections of money are
of her parents taking away any money she earned. Someone
else's needs were always greater than her own. An aunt sent
her to business college. Then she landed a good job, but she
still found it hard to manage money, and her expenses exceeded her earnings. So she started to "borrow" money from
the office petty cash box. When shopping at a department
store, she made it a habit to slip a tube of lipstick, a pair
of earrings, or other small items into her purse without paying for them. She found innumerable ways to justify her
slippery fingers, but deep down inside she knew she was
doing wrong.
Then one day her boss decided to check the petty cash
fund. By now over thirty dollars was missing. No one was
able to prove why the money had disappeared; so it was
assumed that the boss had taken it himself and wouldn't
admit it. Denise needed her job so much that she dared not
confess. She had no choice but to live with guilt.
Bombed out by guilt! How many young people have
fallen into this trap? It may be guilt due to sexual promiscuity, being hooked on drugs or alcohol, shoplifting, or
just a multitude of minor bad habits. If you have been
caught in the guilt trap, it may be because of the way you
UP) feel about your parents or friends, or you may be bugged
when you commit errors or omit doing something you know
you should do. You may be bugged by guilt over one thing
or many things.
In his book, The Jesus Generation, Billy Graham makes
this point about guilt: "Guilt is not all bad. Without it
there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination
and
toward God for forgiveness." Guilt does lead a person
al'
toward soul-searching, then prayer asking for the Lord's forgiveness. Without any guilt feelings at all, a person could
feel pretty sure of himself—too self-sufficient, smug, and
full of self-esteem. On the bright side, guilt keeps one more
humble than proud. It can lead to self-improvement, because guilt recognizes the deep need for improvement.
Guilt leads to growth if it results in positive action of
`some sort. Instead of borrowing from the office petty cash
fund as Denise did, a girl might go to business college at
night to improve her skills so she could find a better-paying
job. Or she might learn how to manage the money she does
make. A young person who believes he has problem parents, and doesn't love them in the way he should, through
guilt may be led to revise his thinking. Eventually he'll
dwell on their good points instead of their weaknesses.
Handling such guilt in a positive way can lead a teen-ager
really to work at the relationship with his parents rather
than taking them for granted.
Here are some dictionary definitions of guilt: Delinquency or failure in respect to one's duty. (Guilt due to sins
of omission.) Responsibility for an offense. (Guilt due to
sins of commission.) Feelings of culpability, especially for
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imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy: morbid
self-reproach often manifests itself in a marked preoccupation with the moral correctness of one's own behavior. (Selfaccusation. )
A friend recently neglected to park his car correctly.
The car rolled down a slight hill, rammed into a parked
car, and caused considerable damage to both vehicles. My
friend suffered from guilt pangs caused by his own negligence. Self-discipline is the tool needed to stay free of this
kind of guilt.
A friend of ours talked to a neighbor while he was on a
high ladder giving his house a coat of paint. Without thinking, she told him about someone she knew who had fallen
from a ladder and hurt himself seriously. Right after she
left, the neighbor fell and injured himself. My friend felt
guilty because she realized she might have planted a wrong
thought in this man's mind. She now reminds herself to do
a lot more thinking before she speaks. In this case, a little
self-examination led to self-discipline and self-control—
antidotes for actions which lead to this type of guilt.
A boy I know feels guilty because he tried to help someone headed in the wrong direction. He had a heart-to-heart
talk with this person, and at the time thought he did the
right thing. Later, however, he changed his mind, and this
has led to self-accusation. He has forgotten that the right
kind of love does lead to helping others by leveling with
them, even if it should cost a friendship or some other relationship. Love does not always keep still. So this boy suffers
from imagined guilt, and yet he did the right thing in the
first place.
In the book, The Jesus Generation, the term "bad vibrations" is used. This means such things as depression, delusion, disappointment, and despair. Then there is restlessness,
boredom, and guilt. Of course, guilt can lead to any of the
other maladies. If you are besieged by guilt, is there anything
you can do about it?
First, be sure it's real and not just imagined. It's sad
enough to suffer because of old, but very real guilt, let alone
imagined guilt. However, if the guilt is for real, then see if
there is anything you can do to make amends. If there is, by
all means do it. Action is a terrific tension releaser—it will
also alleviate guilt. The other antidote is confession—to
yourself and to God. Sometimes it may also be necessary to
talk over guilt feelings with a close friend.
Unresolved guilt feelings can make you physically ill.
Don't let this happen to you. In The Art of Understanding
Yourself, Cecil Osborne writes: "If we do not resolve guilt
through the securing of forgiveness and self-forgiveness,
an inner mechanism goes into operation. We will suffer an
inner disease, in the form of remorse, depression, or some
other mental or emotional manifestation. When this becomes too great, the mind passes its pain on to the body,
and actual organic disease can follow."
Everyone suffers from guilt from time to time. The only
way to hack it is to refuse to back it up with daily remorse.
We need to find ways to resolve our guilt feelings, such as
through confession and action. We need to realize that
God is willing to forgive us, and we can do no less for
ourselves.
Drug Use Is Epidemic
Drug abuse in schools could be
compared with a smallpox epidemic, according to Dr. Ben Sheppard, a leading narcotics fighter in
Miami, Florida.
Dr. Sheppard says that drug
abuse is a growing menace in the
schools and that not enough is being done about it.
Dr. Sheppard has treated drug
abuse for more than 10 years and
heads a methadone clinic to treat
heroin addicts. He is particularly
outspoken against proposals to legalize the use of marijuana.
"If you read the medical journals
instead of the newspapers," he
says, "you'll find the pathology
against marijuana getting stronger
and stronger."
He says medical reports show
brain wave abnormalities and
strong effects on blood sugar. A
diabetic could go into a coma from
using marijuana, he says.
"The kids tell me they get the
`gluts and munches' after a marijuana binge," he says, explaining
they have sudden cravings for food
and sweet drinks to build back the
lost blood sugar.
"That's why you see the hamburger and coke stands crowded
with kids on weekends. Nowdays,
the cheap wines sold in grocery
and convenience stores are almost
as bad a problem as marijuana,"
says Dr. Sheppard.
Kids Don't Need Drugs
Drugging hyperactive children is not the way to modify their behavior, according to Dr. Mark A. Stewart, professor of psychiatry at
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis.
More attention should be paid to changing the children's environment
and the way their parents and teachers approach them, says Dr. Stewart.
"Hyperactivity cannot be outgrown, but rather represents a cluster
of personality traits that are with
the person for good. Once you
start this person on drugs, you
A tar component from cigarette would have to treat him the rest
smoke and certain drugs can inter- of his life."
According to Dr. Stewart, hyperfere with oxygen transfer between
activity occurs among 5 to 8 permother and fetus.
This interference impairs fetal cent of grade school boys and
development when given to preg- among 1 percent of girls of typical
nant animals, according to re- suburban parents.
In a book to be published in Jansearchers at Johns Hopkins Uniuary by Harper & Row, Dr. Stewversity.
"If our findings prove true for art and medical writer Sally Wendhumans," they say, "it would mean kos Olds advise parents and eduthat we have found one physiologi- cators on the proper approach to
cal factor linking cigarette smok- hyperactive children. Among their
ing in mothers with reduced birth suggestions:
weights of infants."
♦ Realize that you cannot change
Another factor may be high lev- your child's personality. Recognize
els of carbon monoxide that have and praise his positive traits and
been found in maternal and fetal habits, and work in a planned way
blood of mothers who smoke. Car- to modify his faults one at a time.
bon monoxide reduces the oxygen- ♦ Meet your child halfway by not
carrying capacity of the blood.
putting him in an environment or
The studies also showed that cer- social situation which is difficult
tain drugs, such as amphetamines, for him to handle. Hyperactive
morphine, and chlorpromazine, a children need a structured housecommon tranquilizer, reduce the hold with a definite daily routine.
amount of oxygen reaching the
♦ Prepare your child to know his
animal fetuses.
own limitations and strengths and
The researchers say these studies on oxygen transfer also may to make the best use of them. The
more techniques you provide your
explain why babies of drug-addicted mothers are smaller in size. child—such techniques as breaking
up his work periods or playing
Many studies in the past 15 years
have linked cigarette smoking with with a few friends at a time—the
more control he will have over his
small babies.
own behavior.
Smoking Harms Fetus
Drugs aren't the answer for a
hyperactive child. Instead, try
changing the child's environment.
"Good News"for Teens
The Bible is helping youths in
New Zealand kick the narcotics
habit, says the American Bible Society.
Hundreds of copies of the New
Testament in Today's English Version, "Good News for Modern
Man," have been shipped to Teen
Haven, a drug rehabilitation center for young addicts in Waikato,
New Zealand. They are "in constant use in therapy there," says
the society.
The center's director, the Rev.
David Brett, regards the New Testament as an essential tool in the
program: "Without the Word of
God we might as well pack up and
go home!"
Addicts Use Drugs on Job
More than 90 percent of addicts
now in New York City drug rehabilitation programs say they used
drugs on the job.
A year-long study, compiled by
the Training for Living Institute
(TFL), concludes that for long periods of time addicts can hold
down diverse positions ranging
from plant worker to managerial
posts without being detected.
Says TFL research director, Dr.
Stephen J. Levy: "According to the
subjects interviewed, drug addiction on the job is masked through
careful manipulation of the high
induced by heroin. Unusual behavior is passed off as fatigue, anxiety, or hangover, and these are
apparently acceptable excuses."
Of the 95 drug abusers interviewed 91 admitted that they used
drugs while at work; and of these,
48 said they sold drugs or stole
from their employers to finance
their habits. Sixty-eight also admitted to some type of on-the-job
criminal activity.
"The average age of the working
Babies need a good start in
drug abusers was 23, but the averTo support his habit, a drug age drug history was 6.5 years," Dr. life, without interference from the
addict often sells drugs or steals Levy says, "indicating that the mother's cigarette smoke or use
from his employer.
drug use started around age 17." of drugs.
Watch Your Step
Drunk driving laws in Russia
are so strict that hardly anybody
who gets loaded ever attempts to
drive. Yet, about one third of the
country's 30,000 annual traffic
deaths are due to drinking. Seems
that when the Muscovite gets a
heavy load on, he starts to walk
home and staggers in front of oncoming cars!
In This NEWS
• Where do teen-agers learn
about drugs? See page 20.
♦ There's a dangerous ingredient in sleeping pills. See page
21.
• Cigarette sales are on the
way up. See page 22.
19
LISTEN NEWS
December, 1972
Drug-taking Is Learned
Behavior From Parents
"I can't understand why my teenager uses drugs," confides the
distressed mother over her afternoon martini. She stubs out her
cigarette in an overflowing ashtray
and continues talking.
A team of Canadian psychologists might be able to help her and
adults in a similar situation. They
have found that drug-taking is a
form of learned behavior handed
down from parent to child.
Parents who regularly use moodchanging drugs, including alcohol
and tobacco, may unintentionally
pass on to offspring an attitude favoring drug experimentation.
In a two-year study of drug use
among high school students in
Toronto, the psychologists collected
student responses indicating a positive link between parental drug
use and the frequency and amount
of drugs used by their children.
For every five separate drugs
used by their parents, children
were more likely to be users, most
often of mind-altering and frequently illegal drugs.
The study is one of many research projects that are gradually
eroding the long-held belief that
turning on with drugs arises from
a "generation gap" or youthful defiance.
The percentage of students who
reported using tobacco, marijuana,
barbiturates, heroin, speed, LSD,
and other mind-affecting drugs was
lowest if the parents used neither
tobacco or alcohol. Mothers who
smoked and drank frequently were
most likely to have their children
turn to illicit and stronger drugs,
the study indicated.
Students who reported that their
parents regularly used tranquilizers were twice as likely to smoke
marijuana, three times as likely
to use hallucinatory drugs, and
eight times as likely to follow the
example of drug use set in their
households.
The psychologists conclude that
until the underlying causes of drug
abuse can be spotted for treatment,
adults as well as children need to
be educated about drugs.
Shirts for Sale
Drug use is a form of learned
behavior handed down from parent to child.
The Marlboro Man apparently
is ready to sell the shirt off his
back. Capitalizing on interest
in the Western gear and clothing appearing in its Marlboro
cigarette ads over the years,
Philip Morris is selling some
of these items. But prices
aren't cheap in Marlboro Country. A chamois shirt costs $75.
A sheepskin coat: $225.
New Attack Against
Cigarette Smoking
The British government is
launching a new campaign against
cigarettes. The chief target is the
smoker who can't kick the habit.
Sir Keith Joseph, secretary for
social services, says the government will publish tables twice a
year grading cigarette brands according to their tar and nicotine
content.
The campaign, which will start
next year, represents a slight tactical change in the government's
battle against tobacco addiction.
Up to now, the main idea has been
to stop people from starting to
smoke.
Television advertising of cigarettes has already been banned,
and all brands of British cigarettes
carry the printed warning: "Smoking can damage your health." So
do all newspaper and magazine advertisements for cigarettes.
Sir Joseph reported to the House
of Commons results of a study by
a scientific team—that while tar
was the ingredient in cigarettes
most likely to do harm in the lungs,
nicotine was probably more conducive to heart disease.
Victory Not in Sight
While the international war
against heroin is making progress,
hopes for victory are dim.
A new study by U.S. experts
found sellers having no problem
keeping up with still-growing demand. The plan to end cultivation
of opium poppies, source of the
drug, has bogged down. U.S. officials suspect that Turkey's farmers
have not only stockpiled opium,
but will be conduits for new
sources in Asia.
The flow of heroin from France
into the United States has not been
stopped, despite record seizures at
border points and a crackdown on
French "factories." France, in fact,
with about 20,000 addicts now, is
expected to have 100,000 by 1980.
Heart Cocktail
Small amounts of alcohol can impair cardiac function in patients
with cardiac disease.
Measurements showed that when
alcohol was administered to ten
patients with cardiac disease, the
cardiac output and stroke index
decreased in all patients, reports
Dr. Lawrence Gould of Misericordia-Fordham Hospital in New
York.
In four normal patients, cardiac
output increased with alcohol intake, mainly due to an increase in
stroke volume.
Afro Hairstyle
High fashion has often been unhealthy. The hourglass figure
pushed the Gibson girl's organs
about; pointed toes and spiked
heels tortured the feet of the
women of the 60's. Most recently,
the Afro hairstyle has come in for
criticism from the medical profession.
A dermatologist from Emory
University in Georgia recently reported that the Afro can damage
hair and cause premature breakage.
Teasing or picking to produce
the Afro frequently causes hair
splitting. "Usually as a result of
prior chemical or mechanical (hot
comb) treatment of black hair to
produce straightening, the hair
shaft is more susceptible to break,"
explains Dr. A. C. Brown, associate professor of medicine.
"However much the Afro style
may point to a new sense of black
pride, it is not without a special
set of problems for many in terms
of hair and scalp care. The problems of breakage, premature recession, scalp sores, and accumulation of dandruff from hair preparations too frequently lead to
medical problems."
How Kids Learn About Drugs
Where, how, and from whom do
youngsters adapt their drug-taking
habits?
Adults who look askance at their
drug-oriented children might do
well to examine their own use of
drugs.
Dr. Paul D. Stolley of Johns
Hopkins University studied the
drug-buying habits of an average
U.S. community of 112,000. He
found that in one year local pharmacies dispensed nearly 200,000
prescriptions, costing $678,000 and
representing more than 9 million
capsules, pills, and liquid dosages.
These figures do not include the
sales of hospital pharmacies in the
community.
Dr. Stolley and his co-workers
were astounded not only by the
excessive amounts of drugs used
but also by the different types
prescribed.
For example, psychotropic drugs
20
—mood changers, agents which
sedate or stimulate the patient—
accounted for 17 percent of all prescriptions written.
Two psychotropics, Librium and
Valium, were the first and third
most commonly prescribed drugs,
accounting for $35,000 sales in this
one community. Nationwide that
year, pharmacists filled an estimated 24 million Librium and 18
million Valium prescriptions.
Antibiotics, too, were overprescribed, according to Dr. Stolley,
often for common illness not meriting such potent medicine.
Dr. Stolley's study reaffirms the
American picture as a hypochondriacal, pill-pushing society. Add
to pills the number of alcoholic
drinks the average adult American
imbibes each year, and the picture
becomes crystal-clear. From whom
do children learn about drugs?
Parents!
A high-speed, hand-held power drill takes samples of lung tissue
in much the same way astronauts take moon-soil samples. It has
proved more than 80 percent effective in obtaining conclusive diagnosis of a variety of lung diseases, including lung cancer, sarcoidosis
and military tuberculosis.
With local anesthetic, the patient suffers little discomfort, there is
minimal disturbance of surrounding tissues and only minor complications, says Dr. Donald C. Zavala of the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
LISTEN NEWS
December, 1972
Choose Your Color
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Sleep Pills: Use With Care
An ingredient in Compoz, SleepEze, Sominex, and other sedatives
sold over the counter can, according to a recent study, cause persons to forget who and where they
are and to suffer hallucinations and
paranoid delusions, usually when
taken in massive doses.
Others, including Nytol, do not
contain the ingredient.
The study on these sedatives was
conducted by Dr. Kenneth C. Ullman, a psychiatrist at Georgetown
Hospital in Washington, D.C., in
cooperation with Dr. Robert H.
Croh, head of the Washington Hospital Center's psychiatry department. It is one of the first clinical
projects on the side effects of nonprescription sleeping pills.
Dr. Ullman developed tests for
establishing that what first seemed
to be a schizophrenic episode was
actually a reaction to scopolamine,
an ingredient in most over-thecounter (OTC) sedatives.
Over an eight-month period, Dr.
Ullman examined 36 patients who
arrived at the emergency room at
the Washington Hospital Center in
a confused, agitated condition. In
10 he found traces in urine samples
of at least two OTC sleeping pill
ingredients.
When physostigmine, a drug that
counteracts the sleeping pill ingredient scopolamine, was administered, most of the patients improved almost immediately, Dr.
Ullman says.
In the past such patients often
have been diagnosed as schizophrenic. Many likely have been
hospitalized at considerable expense, given drugs that did not
help their condition, and even subjected to shock treatments, he explains.
Dr. Ullman says OTC sleeping
pills are being used increasingly
in suicide attempts because "they're
so available, and people are more
prone to have them handy."
Actually, it is rare for a person
to kill himself with the drugs because such massive doses are required. Instead, the suicide patient
will have scopolamine reaction, he
says.
The 10 patients Dr. Ullman
treated for "toxic psychosis" had
either taken sleeping pill overdose
or used OTC sedatives over a long
period.
"But," Dr. Ullman says, "as little
as one or two tablets have been
known to cause a reaction, and we
never know which person will be
affected."
Another danger is that scopolamine may bring on an amnesia-like
state wherein a person forgets
where he is and may harm himself, perhaps by falling somewhere
or walking into the street.
Also, the pills may "tip over" a
borderline mental patient in the
same way an emotional crisis
might, making him a serious institution case.
Because scopolamine can be inexpensively manufactured in a
chemistry lab, Dr. Ullman says, it
is increasingly being traded in the
illegal drug market.
Cases have been found where
scopolamine was sold as LSD. The
danger is that the drug used to
counteract a bad LSD trip increases
the activity of scopolamine in the
body. If a doctor is told a patient
took LSD when the drug was actually scopolamine, an incorrect
diagnosis might be made and the
wrong antidote administered, sending the patient into shock, Dr. Ullman says.
The most recent available drug
industry figures show the public
spent $28.3 million on OTC sleeping aids in 1970. That same year,
manufacturers of 10 widely-sold
OTC sedatives spent $10.7 million
on advertising.
Many people have a favorite
color. This could indicate a simple
visual preference for that color or
it could mean something much
more significant.
Assador Choungourian of Pennsylvania State University feels that
color preferences can be used to
differentiate personality types. He
has attempted to determine the
specific color preference of extroverts and neurotics.
At the American University of
Beirut, Lebanon, undergraduates
were divided into three groups according to their scores on a personality test. Eighty extroverts, 80
neurotics, and 160 undifferentiated
controls were selected. There were
equal numbers of men and women
and equal numbers of students
from the United States, Lebanon,
Iran, and Kuwait.
Red, orange, yellow, yellowgreen, green, blue-green, blue, and
purple cards were presented in a
preference test. The neurotics significantly preferred red and purple
more than did the extroverts, while
extroverts significantly preferred
yellow-green more than the neurotics.
A Freaky Accident
In Alabama a man was asleep in
his bed at home. A driver left the
street on the wrong side, went
around a telephone pole, knocked
down a brick retaining wall,
swerved back to the right, traveled about 197 feet, jumped the
curb, crashed through a link fence,
crossed the yard of the sleeper's
house, crashed through the wall
of the house, traveled to the bedroom, and killed the sleeper.
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Tax War on Pushers
The availability of narcotics on
city streets has been diminished
because of an intensive, year-long
Government crackdown on drug
traffickers who violate income tax
laws, the Administration says.
Assistant Treasury Secretary Eugene T. Rossides says the Internal
Revenue Service has assessed more
than $54 million in back taxes
against known drug dealers since
last July. Also, $8.5 million in cash
or confiscated property has been
collected so far.
"When you take out that amount
of capital and remove that many
traffickers, my feeling is that it
causes disruption" to the drug distribution network, Rossides says.
"The word for drug traffickers is
to get out of the illegal drug traffic or face intensive tax investigation," he adds. "The word should
be spread in every city and town
in the United States. We have institutionalized this program. Everyone in this illegal business should
realize that they will be subjected
to tough tax scrutiny."
"When we feed our children
sour grapes, we needn't be surprised that they get fed up."
Alice Kay Rogers.
WHAT WHERE
WHY WHO
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WHEN WHAT
• There were 16,144 arrests in the
U.S. for drug violations in fiscal
1972, nearly double the figure for
1969. Myles J. Ambrose, a special
presidential consultant and director of the U. S. Office of Drug
Abuse Law Enforcement, said the
quantity of heroin seized also has
doubled.
The Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs reported that its
agents and Thai police seized $231
million worth of opium, morphine,
and heroin in northern Thailand
in two days. Bureau director John
Ingersoll said the raids netted
nearly three tons of opium, 686
pounds of morphine, and about 15
pounds of heroin. (AP)
• One out of four hospitalized
mentally ill patients in Italy is an
alcoholic, says a government-sponsored survey. It determined that
34.5 percent of all hospitalized
mental patients in the highly industrialized north are alcoholics,
27.6 percent in the central area,
and only 10 percent in the south.
("Medical Tribune")
• Electron microscopic studies of
human heart cells and experiments
in which large amounts of alcohol
were fed to mice show that alcohol
interferes with the metabolism of
heart cells. A person who regularly
consumes three or four alcoholic
drinks a day may run the risk of
damaging his heart tissue, says Dr.
George E. Burch, Tulane University School of Medicine in New
Orleans. ("American Family Physician")
• The beer supply in Tokyo is
down to a trickle, says the Japanese newspaper "Mainichi Shimbun." Tokyo was expected to consume 840 million bottles from June
to August, 20 percent more than
that in the same period last year.
The beer shortage has been aggravated by a long strike at Sapporo,
where the breweries had been
forced to turn down big orders.
(UPI)
• Next January will see the nation's two millionth traffic death.
The first traffic fatality was in New
York City in 1899. The one millionth occurred in December, 1951.
Thus it took 52 years to kill the
first million and only 21 years to
kill the second. ("Traffic Talk")
• Beer is the No. 1 offender in
drunken driving cases in Germany.
Studies conducted by the Universities of Hamburg, Frankfurt, and
Mainz showed beer responsible for
about half the cases. When drunk
with liquor or wine, beer was
blamed for 75 percent of drunkenness behind the wheel, the universities said. (UPI)
• According to Secretary of
Transport John A. Volpe, if the
present trend continues, one of
every two children born today in
the United States will be killed or
injured in a traffic crash before
reaching age 70. ("Traffic Talk")
21
LISTEN NEWS
December, 1972
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Automotive Words
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Hidden in the letters below are at least 64 words dealing
with automotive parts. To find these words read the letters
forward, backward, up, down, or diagonally. Draw a line
around each word as you find it.
Record Sales of Smokes
Americans purchased a record
547.2 billion cigarettes in 1971.
The Federal Trade Commission
has called on Congress to take
these actions:
• Require stronger health-hazard
warnings about the dangers of
smoking.
Flock of Bad Habits
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dashboard
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headlights
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horn
hubcaps
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lighters
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oil pump
pistons
radiator
radio
rim
ring gear
seat
shift
shock absorber
spark plugs
speedometer
stabilizer
starter
steering wheel
stoplight
taillight
tires
top
transmission
trim
universals
valves
water pump
wheels
windows
windshield
wipers
Play the game of association. Ask
a smoker or nonsmoker to say what
immediately comes into his mind
when you say the word "cigarette."
Chances are he will reply: "Bad
habit" or "Cancer" or "Emphysema," et cetera. But we often
overlook other aspects of the smoking habit and how it affects us.
If you smoke at least a pack a
day, chances are you're a coffee
drinker. Many smokers aren't satisfied unless they have a dozen or
more coffee breaks a day.
If you're a smoker, it's likely that
you're a beer or whiskey drinker
too. Not an occasional imbiber, but
one who opens quite a few cans a
day or mixes more martinis or
highballs than are good for you.
Bad habits seem to breed other
bad habits. It's all tied in with the
personality of the smoker. Many
have the tendency to do things to
excess. They'll sleep less, eat more,
play harder, work harder.
I'm not saying that nonsmokers
are angels in their behavior. But as
a rule, they are more moderate in
living, though there are exceptions
that prove the rule.
The point I'm trying to make is
that emphysema, heart disease, and
cancer are not the only enemies of
the smoker.
I think it's true that bad habits
flock together. If you can break
one or more of them, some of the
others get lonely and slink away.
• Provide for Government purchase of newspaper, radio, and
television antismoking messages.
The FTC says cigarette purchases
last year were "well above the previous high mark of 540.3 billion
units sold in 1968."
The law since November, 1970,
has required all cigarette packages
to bear the statement: "Warning:
The surgeon general has determined that cigarette smoking is
dangerous to your health."
FTC spokesmen have repeated
an earlier suggestion that "a more
strongly worded warning statement would be in the public interest." It has called on Congress
to amend the law.
A major effect of banning cigarette ads from the broadcast media, the FTC says, has been the
disappearance of antismoking messages from television.
The FTC has urged Congress to
provide the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare with
enough money to "purchase time
on commercial broadcasting facilities and space in print media for
the dissemination of messages designed to discourage cigarette
smoking."
Pot Smokers Risk Heroin
A study of teen-age girls at a
London reform school says that one
out of five who experimented with
soft drugs such as marijuana went
on to use narcotics like heroin.
The study, covering a three-year
period, was published in the "British Medical Journal."
Its authors, Dr. Peter Noble and
Gill G. Barnes of London's Maudsley Hospital, said they felt young
people who experiment with marijuana and other soft drugs were
taking a "considerable risk" that
they might wind up on hard drugs.
Of the girls who had never tried
soft drugs, only 1 percent used hard
drugs, the study reported.
A Little Bit May Hurt You
Individuals with poor eyesight
or hearing, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, diabetes, epilepsy, and a few other medical
conditions, may be very susceptible
to harm from even small amounts
of alcohol.
Also susceptible are those who
are taking tranquilizers or medicine for high blood pressure, or
who have allergies or colds. Some
of these people should not risk
drinking at all.
Alcohol impairs vision, slows reactions, and makes a person less
cautious. Any one of these can
lead to traffic problems—or walking problems.
Drinking by drivers and pedestrians is a very real problem. In
one month, for instance, 80 percent
of the drivers killed in Wisconsin
traffic crashes had been drinking,
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although only 26 percent had blood
alcohol levels of .10 percent or
higher. In some states this percentage of alcohol is considered
the legal intoxication point, and
the Federal Government recommends that .10 percent be standard.
In some European countries the
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country a drinking driver who kills
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to death.
Laboratory studies show many
people are adversely affected with
.05 percent of alcohol in their
blood, but all are affected at .10
Redemption centers are not always for trading stamps, according
percent—regardless of their drinking habits or experience.
to this sign at St. Paul's Methodist Church in Baltimore.
David Cassidy has rapidly become a super-teen-idol—as star of the
popular TV series "The Partridge Family" and as
lead voice on the group's records.
Their first single, "I Think I Love You," quickly became a hit on
the Top 40 charts, along with follow-up singles, "Doesn't Somebody Want 114\
to Be Wanted," "I'll Meet You Halfway," and "I Woke Up in Love This Morning."
Four of The Partridge Family LPs have received the gold album award.
David Cassidy has a message about cigarettes for his fans. "Don't be a drag," advises
the young idol of teen-agers everywhere. "I quit cigarettes. So can you."
The young actor is the son of actor Jack Cassidy, and stepson of his TV series "mo
Shirley Jones. But he has worked hard to achieve success strictly on his own.
After several dramatic acting roles in New York and Hollywood, David was signed for
"The Partridge Family" series, and he returned to his first love—music. As Keith Partridge, 1w
musical combo. As David
sings and plays the guitar in the family's
brightest actor-singer
Cassidy, he is launching one of the
careers in the business.
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Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation
Alcoholism Is Not a Disease
Drugs Are Drugs!
Forbidden Label, The
How to Help a Person in Trouble
Hun-powa—Death Arrived
Legend of the Four Winds
M ilitary Tags Alcohol
Nutrition and the Drug Problem
This 4-Dimensional Key Actually
Inoculates Against Alcoholism
Toward the Solution of Alcoholism
Veterans' Organizations—What's the
Problem?
Washington Monument, The
What's on Your Plate?
Margaret Troutt .....
Robert N. Hunt
Francis A. Soper
Tom Shipp
Rudy K. Alday
Allan I). Fredlund
LISTEN NEWS
Agatha M. Thrash, M.D. .
24- 3-16
25-01-17
25-04-02
25-10-03
25.08.07
25-04-18
25-07-20
24-10- 7
Ernest H. J. Steed
Ernest H. J. Steed
25-10-08
25-10-09
Ray Lacharite
Henry F. Unger
Joyce McClintock
25-10-11
24.11- 4
24-10- 3
Volume, Issue, Page
Why Drugs?
Why Pink Elephants?
Why Torture Rabbits?
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
25-09-02
25-10-02
24- 6- 2
Ernie Holyer
Phyllis Somerville
Picture Feature
24- 7-11
25-12-05
24. 7-10
Charles Patti
Alma L. Campbell
Ernie Holyer
LISTEN NEWS
Charles Patti
Henry F. Unger
Charles Patti
25.10-14
24- 4- 4
24- 4. 9
25-03-22
24-12-17
24-11- 4
25-09-04
Historical
Great Books Lost
Hals, Frans—A Checkered Life
"Maybe They Didn't Know Better"
Raymond, Bugs—How to Lose in
Baseball
"Several Swigs"—A Sequel
Simple Life, The
Spoonful of Brandy, A
Success Without Alcohol
Washington Monument, The
What Cheer House
Home and Family
Alcohol Effects
Alcohol Damages Muscles; Proper
Diet Is No Help
Alcohol's Effect on Memory and
Lest fling Ability
Alcohol—the Inside Story
Bird Brains
"Cocktail" for the Heart
Doctor Looks at Alcohol, The
Drink and Smoke Don't Mix
How Bones Become Brittle
"Just One"
Marijuana vs. Alcohol
Pot Competes With Booze
"Several Swigs"—A Sequel
Tippling Hurts Your Ticker
Weak Heart? Don't Drink
Why Pink Elephants?
LISTEN NEWS
25-11-19
Lorraine Judson Carbary ...25.05-03
25-10
LISTEN Insert
24- 3- 2
Francis A. Soper
25-09-21
LISTEN NEWS
25-10-06
Dr. George E. Burch
25-01-21
LISTEN NEWS
25-03.19
LISTEN NEWS
24- 1-24
Film Preview
25-03.06
Samuel Carter McMorris
24- 7-22
LISTEN NEWS
244- 4
Alma L. Campbell
25-04-19
LISTEN NEWS
25-05-19
LISTEN NEWS
25-10-02
Francis A. Soper
Alcohol Statistics
Alcohol Kills More Persons Than Drugs..LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
Alcoholic Scoreboard, The
LISTEN NEWS
Being Smashed Costs
William L. Roper
Blind Spot, The
Chicago "Brakes" Its Drinking Drivers ..Francis A. Soper
Art
Fettig
Inflation and Alcohol
LISTEN NEWS
NYC Pays Huge Drink Bill
Veterans' Organizations—What's
Ray Lacharite
the Problem?
Charles Patti
What Cheer House
Mary E. Lockhart
What's on the Shelf?
25-02-19
25.02-22
25-07-21
24- 6- 8
24-12- 3
24- 7- 9
24- 9-20
25-10-11
25-09-04
24- 5-15
Alcohol and Safety
Alcohol Blamed in Half of All
LISTEN NEWS
Traffic Deaths
Alcohol Involved in 50% of
Chicago "Brakes" Its Drinking Drivers . Francis A. Soper
LISTEN NEWS
Traffic Deaths
Ted Alexander
Game of Fancy Dominoes
Wood Wilson
Gift for Mister
LISTEN NEWS
Golfers Have New Hazard
Bruce Cline
I Destroyed Christmas
Film Preview
"Just One"
Marijuana and Alcohol
William N. Plymat
Now They're Flying "High"
Lorraine Judson Carbary
Third Passenger, The
Jean Davison
Today's Unchecked Killer
25-11-22
24-12- 3
25-05-20
25-12-10
24-12-16
24- 9-19
25-12-03
24- 1-24
25-01-09
25-04-03
.25.03-05
24- 4- 5
Alcohol & Youth
25.11-20
LISTEN NEWS
Alcohol No. 1 With Teens
25-12-02
Francis A. Soper
All in, the Family
Marjorie Grant Burns .... 24-12-11
Checkmate
25-07-11
William
N.
Plymat
Drinking and VD
25-03-02
Francis A. Soper
From Pop to "Pop Wine"
244-18
Danny
Groves
I Went to a Party
24-10-16
If I Didn't Sell It, Someone Else Would .E. W. Minshull
24-12-13
Edith
Coe
Is There Need for Camouflage?
25-04.09
Maybe, Just Maybe
as told to Eloise Fruge ....25-10-15
My Dreams Went Pff-t-t
24- 3- 5
Harvey Hansen
Pledge for Parents
24- 8- 9
Carol Mayfield
Problem Mother
Lorraine Judson Carbary 25-03-05
Third Passenger, The
249-10
Sandy Smith
We've Made It!
Editorials
All in the Family
Are We Losing Ground?
Bird Brains
Born Free
Dead Wood
Drug Curtain, The
Escape—Who Needs It?
Flight or Fantasy?
Forbidden Label, The
From Pop to "Pop Wine"
Getting to the Root
Glassblowers and Hiccups
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Me—an Addict?
Part of the Best
Prepare for the Landing
Remove the Drag
Silent Majority
Tigers and Pussycats
l'illess . . .
Where My Nose Begins
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Super
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
25-12-C2
24- 9- 2
24- 3- 2
24-12- 2
24-10- 2
24-11- 2
24- 5- 2
25-07-02
25-04-02
25-03-02
24- 2- 2
25-06-02
25-01-02
24- 8- 2
25-11-02
24- 4. 2
25-02-02
25-08-02
24- 7- 2
25-05-02
24- 1- 2
All in the Family
Better Living? Yes, but Not
Through Chemistry
Child's View of Addiction, A
Comedy or Tragedy?
Day the Drug Problem Came Home, The.
Drugs—All in the Family?
Drugs? Not My Children!
Drug-taking Is Learned Behavior
From Parents
Family Physician Looks at the Drug
Scene, The
"God Help Me—I'm a Parent!"
Home Important to Youth
Home Love Protects Child
How Kids Learn About Drugs
"How to Raise Your Parents"
How to Turn Off Your Kids
"Is Your Family Turned On?"
Junkie Babies
Love Opens the Door
Mike-Hell
"My Daddy Is Pretty Smart, but—"
My Name Is Cynthia Ellen
Newborn Drug Addicts
"Overcoming Drugs"
Pill and I, The
Pledge for Parents
Real Man, A
Smoking Habit Hits in Many Ways
Smoking Mothers Risk Harm to
Unborn Children
Ten Rules Helpful for Parents
There's No Excuse for Drowning!
We've Made It!
What Teens Think of Adults
Why Drugs?
Francis A. Soper
25-12-02
L Eugene Arnold, M.D. 24- 7- 3
Mrs. R H. Zachow
Emily Cook Deaver
Mary Dixon Fleeman
LISTEN NEWS
Richard E. Garnett
LISTEN NEWS
25-06-15
25.05-06
25-04-05
25-11-20
24-11- 3
25-12-20
Stanley F. Peters, M.D.
25-08-10
Book Review
25-10.18
LISTEN NEWS
24- 1-19
LISTEN NEWS
25-01-19
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-20
Book Review
25-01-15
LISTEN NEWS
25-05-20
Book Review
25-03-15
Lorraine Judson Carbary 25-01-10
Lavonne Zublin
24- 4- 3
Blendena L. Sonnichsen
25-10-16
Marie Layne
25-02-03
Alice R. Kibler
25-05-24
25-01-11
Book Review
25-01-08
Patricia Zonker
25-01-03
Harvey Hansen
24- 3- 5
Ann Landers
25-08-23
LISTEN NEWS
24- 6-20
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
Irwin Ross, Ph.D
Sandy Smith
LISTEN NEWS
Francis A. Soper
24- 5-19
25-10-22
24- 6-17
24- 9-10
24- 2-20
25-09-02
Inspirational & Travel
"Adventures of Snowshoe
Thompson, The"
Book Review
25-02-15
Bit 0' Kindness, A
Shirley M. Dever
25-01.14
Chasing the Wind
Shirley M. Dever
25-07-18
Come On In, the Middle's Fine
Marjorie Grant Burns
25-05-14
Cook, John—To Be a Man
Paul J. Meyer
24- 3-17
Dead Wood
Francis A. Soper
24-10- 2
Enough of This Sense-less Living!
L E. Nicholson
24- 7-14
Enthusiasm Is Everything
Shirley M. Dever
25-06-18
Escape—Who Needs It?
Francis A. Soper
24- 5- 2
Experiment in Turning On
Robin Campbell
24- 5-14
Flight or Fantasy?
Francis A. Soper
25-07-02
FREEDOM—Just Another Word?
25-06-09
From Drugs to Christ—Scott Ross
Edward J. Myers
25-02-14
Ghost Town God
Waible Patton
25-01.16
Healing Touch, The
Katherine W. Moseley
25-03.16
Honest! There Is a Safe
Hallucinogenic Trip
T Casey Brennan
24- 5-23
"I CAN Do All Things"
Kathryn S. Cooke
25-02-16
"It's Later Than You Think"
Shirley M. Dever
24- 9-18
Legend of the Four Winds
Allan D. Fredlund
25-04-18
"No, Grandfather"
as told to Elizabeth Goss _25-05-07
Now They're Flying "High"
William N. Plymat
25-04-03
Prepare for the Landing
Francis A. Soper
24- 4- 2
Real Man, A
Ann Landers
25-08-23
Religion Is Effective for Kicking
Addiction
LISTEN NEWS
25-09-10
Start the World! I Want to Get On! ....Diana C. Gleasner
24- 4-16
Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
Irwin Ross, Ph.D
24- 1-14
Storm Over San Quentin
Pat Kinnaman
24- 2- 9
Sunny "Whether"
von D.
24-12-17
Thought Out and Thawed Out
Shirley M. Dever
25-05-16
Tucson Teens Tell Their Story
Don Perryman
25-03-15
Legislative Control & Economic Effects
A Question of Law
An End to Liquor Ads?
Blind Spot, The
Inflation and Alcohol
Marijuana and Alcohol
Marijuana—Innocent or Guilty?
Marijuana Is Big Business
Marijuana vs. Alcohol
NYC Pays Huge Drink Bill
Senator With a Cause—
Senator Edward W. Brooke
Stop the Pushers!
Unless . . .
What Cheer House
Youth Become Smugglers
Margaret Hill
David L. Schwantes
William L. Roper
Art Fettig
Jean Davison
LISTEN NEWS
Samuel Carter McMorris
LISTEN NEWS
24- 1- 3
24-11-15
24- 6- 8
24- 7- 9
25-01-09
24- 8- 7
24- 7.20
25-03-06
24- 9-20
LISTEN Interview
Francis A. Soper
Francis A. Soper
Charles Patti
LISTEN NEWS
25-08-03
25-07-07
25-05-02
25-09-04
24- 7-21
Volume, Issue, Page
Marijuana
Are Drugs Really "Fun"?
Does Rock Sell Drugs?
Drugs on Campus
From the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Half of GI's in Vietnam Have
Smoked Marijuana
If Your Children Use Drugs
Henry Brill, M.D
Twyla Schlotthauer
Patricia McKenzie
R. M. Mayfield
24- 6-14
24- 1- 9
25-01-15
24- 3- 3
24- 4-22
LISTEN NEWS
Interview with Dr. Edward
24-12-14
Bloomquist
24-10-19
LISTEN NEWS
25-01-05
Lou Zauner
24- 8- 5
Maureen Englin
25-01-09
24- 8- 7
Jean Davison
24- 7-20
LISTEN NEWS
Harnessing the Horsepower
I Saw You
"No Big Thing"
Postal War on Drugs
There's No Excuse for Drowning!
Volume, Issue, Page
•
s.Chick Watson
25-03-23
Myra Meier
24-11-23
Sebi Breci
25-05-11
M. W. Martin
25-11-17
Irwin Ross, Ph.D.
24- 6-17
Narcotics—Informational
A "Turned-on" City
Joe and Virnia
EWSParrott
24- 7- 7
Addict's Eyes May Have It!
LISTEN N gi
25-08-22
Addicts Use Darvon to Imitate Heroin LISTEN NEWS
25.03-20
Is Put Really That Bad?
Addicts Use Drugs on Job
LISTEN NEWS
25.12-19
Keep Off the Grass
Alcohol No. 1 With Teens
LISTEN
NEWS
25.11-20
Legalize Marijuana?
An Umbrella Against Drugs
Henry
F.
l'nger
248-18
Marijuana and Alcohol
Are Drugs Really "Fun"?
Henry Brill, M.D.
24- 6-14
Marijuana—Innocent or Guilty?
Are We Losing Ground?
Francis
A.
Super
24- 9- 3
Marijuana Is Big Business
Army and Heroin Addiction, The
Rep. Seymour Halpern .
25-08-09
Marijuana Is Persistent; Stays in
Better Living? Yes, but Not
24- 5-20
LISTEN NEWS
Body for 3 Days
Through Chemistry
L
Eugene
Arnold,
M.D.
247- 3
Marijuana—Peers, Parents, and Prayer _Interview with Dr. Edward
Downers Abused for Kicks
LISTEN NEWS
25-05-21
24-11- 7
Bloomquist
Down With "Uppers"!
Lorraine
Judson
Carbary
...25-09-06
25-03-06
Samuel
Carter
McMorris
Marijuana vs. Alcohol
Drugs—All in the Family?
LISTEN NEWS
.25-11-20
24- 8- 3
by No. 163511
Mary Jane
Drugs—Business Headache
LISTEN NEWS
24- 8.22
24- 1-22
LISTEN NEWS
New Studies Hit Pot Hard
Drugs
Hurt
Skin
and
Hair
LISTEN NEWS
24- 1-19
25-05-07
as told to Elizabeth Goss
"No, Grandfather"
Drugs: No Scare Tactics
I ISTEN NEWS
......25-05-19
Judge Albert J. Yencopal ..25.03.09
No Way I
Drugs? Not My Children!
Richard E. Garnett
24-11- 3
25-06-19
LISTEN NEWS
Peers Introduce Pot
Drugs on Campus
Patricia McKenzie
25-01-15
24- 7.22
LISTEN NEWS
Pot Competes With Booze
Drug Scene Is Not Pretty
LISTEN NEWS
25-07-20
25-06-21
LISTEN NEWS
Pot Could Lead to Brain Damage
Drug-taking Is Learned Behavior
25-09-20
LISTEN
NEWS
Potheads Get Less Sleep
From Parents
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-20
25.01-22
LISTEN NEWS
Profile of a Pot User
Ear of the Beholder, The
Keith Merced
24- 4- 6
25-01-20
LISTEN NEWS
Rat Brains
Education or Prevention?
LISTEN NEWS
25-05-19
Interview with Dr. Edward
Real Dope on Pot, The
Employers Ban Drug Users
LISTEN NEWS
25-08-20
24- 9-14
Bloomquist
Family Physician Looks at the
25-11-22
LISTEN NEWS
Side Effects From Hashish
Drug Scene, The
Dr. Stanley F. Peters
25-08-10
25-04-22
LISTEN
NEWS
Smoke Your Brains Away
FDA Checks Value of 'Speed'
LISTEN NEWS
25-10-19
25-10-19
LISTEN NEWS
Tar Level Found High in Put
"Friends" Start Addicts
LISTEN NEWS
24- 4-21
24- 7-21
LISTEN NEWS
Youth Become Smugglers
High School Use of Drugs
LISTEN NEWS
24- 5-22
How Kids Learn About Drugs
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-20
How to Deal With Drugs
Medical
LISTEN NEWS
24-12-20
25-08-22
HUH? Your Questions Answered
LISTEN NEWS
Bob Anastas
25.05-10, 25-06-15
I Don't Want to Go Back
25-03-20
LISTEN NEWS
Elva M. Anson ... ..... 24-12- 8
If Your Children Use Drugs
Interview with Dr. Edward
25-11.19
LISTEN NEWS
Bloomquist
24-12-14
Industry Fights Drug Addiction
Picture Feature
24-12- 6
"Is Your Family Turned On?"
25-05-03
Lorraine Judson Carbary
Book Review
25-03-15
Junkie Babies
25-10
LISTEN Insert
Lorraine Judson Carbary
25-01-10
lust 'What the Doctor Ordered
24- 3-16
Margaret Troutt
Frances A. Soper
25-01-02
Keep Off the Grass
24- 3-19
LISTEN NEWS
Lou Zauner
25.01-05
Kids Don't Need Drugs
24-10-13
Amy South
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-19
Kindness May Kill Addicts
25-09-21
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
25-09-20
"King Heroin"
24- 3-19
LISTEN NEWS
Picture Feature
25-12-08
Marijuana—Peers, Parents, and Prayer .Interview with Dr. Edward
25-06-21
LISTEN NEWS
25-01-19
LISTEN NEWS
Bloomquist
24-11- 7
"Maybe They Didn't Know Better"
24- 6-21
LISTEN NEWS
Picture Feature
24- 7.10
Me—an Addict?
24-10-15
Francis A. Soper
24- 8- 2
Methadone Addicts Babies
25-10-06
Dr. George E. Burch
LISTEN NEWS
25-07-22
Newborn Drug Addicts
25-05-21
LISTEN NEWS
25-01-11
Nightmare Trip to Nowhere and Back
25-09-06
Lorraine Judson Carbary
Culver, Three Lions
24- 3- 6
Oldsters Can Be Too "Souped Up"
25-10-19
LISTEN NEWS
on Drugs
24-10-14
Picture Feature
LISTEN NEWS
25-08-19
Ounce of Prevention, An
25-06-02
Francis A. Soper
Henry F. Unger
25-05-15
"Overcoming Drugs''
24-10
Book Review
LISTEN INSERT
25-01-08
Pep Pill Industry Is Blamed for
24- 2-12
Our Drug Abuse Problem
LISTEN NEWS
J Wayne McFarland, M.D. 24-10-10
24-11-19
Pills—An Extra Risk
25-01-10
Lorraine Judson Carbary
Picture Feature
25-11-08
Postal War on Drugs
24- 1-24
Film Preview
M. W. Martin
25-11-17
"Just One"
Real
Dope on Pot, The
25-01-02
Francis A. Soper
Interview with Dr. Edward
lust What the Doctor Ordered
25-12-19
LISTEN NEWS
Bloomquist
24- 9-14
Kids Don't Need Drugs
Religion Is Effective for Kicking
25-07-22
LISTEN NEWS
Methadone Addicts Babies
Addiction
Albert
C.
Koppel,
D.D.S.
25-02-10
LISTEN
NEWS
25-09-19
Nature Needs Your Help
Reply from a LISTEN Reader
25-08-15
Harry W. Daniell, M.D.
24- 7- 6
New Wrinkle, A
Sleep Pills: Used With Care
25-08-21
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-21
Smoking or Drugs? (Synanon program) Joan Talmage Weiss
24-10- 7
Agatha M. Thrash, M.D.
25-02-09
Nutrition and the Drug Problem
Spiders
Take
"Trips"
M.
W.
Martin
245-12
Oldsters Can Be Too ''Souped Up"
25-08-19 STASH Does Drug Research
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
24- 3-22
on Drugs
Survey Types of Drug Users
LISTEN NEWS
25 -08-22
Pep Pill Industry Is Blamed for
Teachers Need Drug Facts
24-11-19
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
25-02-19
Our Drug Abuse Problem
Teen-age Drug Use Rises
25-06-21
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
25-06-20
Pot Could Lead to Brain Damage
Teens Fish for Help
25-09-20
Picture Feature
I ISTEN NEWS
24-11-10
Potheads Get Less Sleep
Telling
It
Cold
Turkey
25-01-20
Picture
Feature
LISTEN
NEWS
248-16
Rat Brains
Truck Drivers Take Pep, T)iet Pills ....LISTEN NEWS
24- 7- 6
25-03-19
Reply From a LISTEN Reader
Up
From
the
Ashes
25-12-21
NEWS
Picture
Feature
LISTEN.
2465
Sleep Pills: Use With Care
25-04-19 What Leads to Heroin?
LISTEN NEWS
25-07-19
Smoke, and You May Look Like a Prune LISTEN NEWS
Who
Can
You
Turn
To?
2427
Evelyn
L.
McCarty
25-12-16
Smoking and Heart Arteries
Why Drugs?
24- 2- 4
L. H. Loncrgan, M.D.
Francis A. Soper
25-09-02
Smoking and the Heart
Youth Turn On to Life
25-02-05
LISTEN NEWS
25-02-20
Smoking and the Oral Cavity
25-02
Smoking and Your Mouth
Narcotics—Law Enforcement
25-08-21
Smoking Cuts Blood Drug
24- 6-20
A "Turned-on" City
Smoking Habit Hits in Many Ways
Joe and Virginia Parrott
24- 7. 7
25-10-20
Action in Sacramento
Smoking Impairs Thinking
Leo Rosenhouse
24- 7- 8
25-01-07
Marijuana—Innocent or Guilty?
Sniffing Is Dangerous .
Jean Davison
24- 8- 7
24- 1-16
Marijuana Is Big Business
"Sound" Sleep Without Pills
LISTEN NEWS
24- 7-20
24- 5-12
Marijuana vs. Alcohol
Spiders Take "Trips"
Samuel Carter McMorris _25-03-06
24- 9-22
My Air Game
Stay Thin, Don't Smoke
Reuben W. Egan
24- .1: 18
No Way!
Steinfeld, Dr. Jesse—U.S. Surgeon
Judge Albert J. Yencopal..25-03-09
LISTEN Interview
24- 3-12
Somebody Cares
24- 4-24
LISTEN NEWS
25-04-19
There's a Price on My Head
by Sam
25-04-16
LISTEN NEWS
25-08-19
Youth Become Smugglers
LISTEN NEWS
24- 7-21
24- 8-19
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
25-05-19
Narcotics—Psychedelics
25-02-21
LISTEN NEWS
A Drop of Hell
24- 1-17
A Little LSD—So What?
Virginia Hansen, R.N.
24- 5- 3
Alton Ochsner, M.D
25-02-04
Does
Rock
Sell
Drugs?
Twyla
Schlotthauer
241- 9
Shirley M. Dever
24- 3-10
Drug Curtain, The
Francis A. Soper
24-11- 2
Joyce McClintock
24-10- 3
Ear
of
the
Beholder,
The
Keith
Merced
2446
Dorothea Jones
24-10-11
Freak Out
Lillian V. Hendershot
24-11-16
24- 2- 3
Honest
!
There
Is
a
Safe.
Do .LISTEN INSERT
24- 2
Hallucinogenic Trip
T Casey Brennan
24- 5-23
LISTEN NEWS
24- 4-20
How to Make Young Addicts
LISTEN NEWS
. 24- 2-21
I Learned the Hard Way
as told to Denise Tidwell
24- 2- 8
My Name Is Cynthia Ellen
Alice R. Kibler
25-05-24
Sex, Drug Abuse Linked
LISTEN NEWS
24-11-20
25-02-15
Sniffing Is Dangerous
Dr. Jacob Sokol
25-01-07
24- 1-22
Street Drugs Bad Deal for Buyers
LISTEN NEWS
25-09-19
24.12-13
The Ultimate Experience
E W. Minshull
24- 5- 4
Volume, Issue, Page
Narcotics—Stories
A Drop of Hell
Virginia Hansen, R.N.
A Little LSD—So What?
T Casey Brennan
All the Dreams We Chose
Mrs. R. H. Zachow
Child's View of Addiction, A
T Casey Brennan
Conquest of Yesterday
as told to A. E. Terrill .
Could It Be Me? (Tommy's Story)
1)ay the Drug Problem Came Home, The Mary Dixon Fleeman
T Casey Brennan
Death of a Pusher
Shane Yarbrough
Flowers Are Plastic! The
Lillian V. Hendershot
Freaked Out
R M. Mayfield
From the Frying Pan Into the Fire
E W. Minshull
Gifted With Light
told to Mary Vandermey
as
God, Bless Joel
Dylan James
Hindsight and Foresight
Sue
Taylor Baker
How I Quit Drugs
as told to Denise Tidwell
I Learned the Hard Way
Joseph
B. Morse
I'm Frec—but on Death Row
Maureen Englin
Legalize Marijuana?
Lavonne Zublin
Love Opens the Door
T Casey Brennan
Man in a Rattrap
by No. 163511
Mary Jane
Alice R. Kibler
My Name Is Cynthia Ellen
T Casey Brennan
No More A-Roving
Patricia Zonker
Pill and I, The
M. K. Faber
"Please Let Me Die I"
Somebody Cares
Marian Hodgkinson
S.O.S.
by Sam
There's a Price on My Head
E W. Minshull
Ultimate Experience, The
24- 1-17
24- 5- 3
24- 6-23
25-06-15
24- 9-17
24- 4-10
25-04-05
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25-01-03
25-06-16
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24- 5- 4
Personalities—General
25-03-11
24- 6- 5
24- 9-14,
24-11-7, 24-12-14
24- 6-14
Francis A. Soper
Brill, Henry, M.D
25-11-12
Jeannine Gensiracusa
13 ambleberry, Mr. (Berkeley Compton)
25-10-06
Burch, Dr. George E.
24-11-12
Vinnie Ruffo
Christensen, Frank—Flyer
25-03-03
Henry
F.
Unger
Conrad, Max—Flyer
24- 3-17
Paul J. Meyer
Cook, John—To Be a Man
25-11-05
Echeverria, Luis—Mexico's President .
24- 5- 7
McCloskey, Dr. Larry—Marine Explorer..Marjorie Grant Burns .
25-01-07
LISTEN
Interview
Sokol, Dr. Jacob
24- 3-16
Winston, Dr. Nat T., Jr.—Psychiatrist ..Margaret Troutt
Anastas, Bob
Blackman's Development Center
Bloomquist, Dr. Edward
Picture Feature
LISTEN Interview
Personalities—Government
Askew, Reubin O'D—Governor of Florida LISTEN Interview
Francis A. Soper
Berg. Raymond K.—Judge
LISTEN Interview
Brooke, Senator Edward W.
LISTEN Interview
Moss, Frank E.—Senator
Steinfeld, Dr. Jesse—U.S. Surgeon
LISTEN Interview
General
25-06-06
24-12- 3
25-08-03
24- 8-12
24- 3-12
Personalities—Radio, TV, Fine Arts, Beauty
25.09-12
LISTEN Interview
Cash, Johnny—Singer
25-09-13
LISTEN Interview
Cash, June Carter—Singer
25-12-23
Cassidy, David—Singer
25-06-12
Marion Rubinstein
Douglas, Mike—TV Actor
Forsyth, Janene—Miss American
25-09.08
Twyla Schlotthauer
Teen-Ager for 1972
24- 9- 5
Graham, Kim—Miss American Teen-Ager. Picture Feature
24-10-12
Marie H. Wood
Grand Land Singers, The
25-12-05
Phyllis
Somerville
Hals, Frans—Artist
25-07-12
LISTEN Interview
Murray, Anne—Singer
25-02-14
Edward
J.
Myers
Ross, Scott DJ
24- 4- 6
Keith Merced
Sherman, Jory—Radio Producer
25-11-18
Wally E. Schulz
Short, Harry—Singer
LISTEN Interview
24- 4-12
Van Dyke, Vonda Kay—Singer
25-06-03
Irwin
Ross
Williams. Hank--Singer
as told to June Finletter _25-04-11
Young, Robert—Actor
Personalities—Sports
Bowles, Jim—Runner
Christensen, Frank—Flyer
Conrad, Max—Flyer
Crampton, Bruce—Golf
Evert Family—Tennis
Hopkins, Gail—Baseball
Jarvis, Pat—Baseball
Kalua, Coach, and the Gymnics
Koonce, Calvin—Baseball
McCoy,. Dave—Skiing
McDaniel, Lindy—Baseball
McNertney, Jerry—Baseball
Maxvill, Dal—Baseball
Moore, Archie—A BC Program
Mullins, Jeff—Basketball
Peterson, Fred—Baseball
Pierce, Roxanne—Gymnast
Frank—Baseball
Raymond,
Raymond, Bugs—Baseball
Robinson, Brooks—Baseball
Robinson, Brooks—Baseball
Sanguillen, Manny—Basehall
Stottlemyre, Mel—Baseball
Sturgill, Virgil—Runner
Sutton. Don--Baseball
Timmerman, Thomas—Baseball
Joseph N. Farley
Henry F. Unger
George Kinney
Adon Taft
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
Opal H. Young
George F. Kinney
Ross Johnson
George Kinney
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
Harold Helfer
Harry Cummins
George F. Kinney
Twyla Schlotthauer
George F. Kinney
Charles Patti
George F. Kinney
LISTEN Interview
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
Harry Cummins
George F. Kinney
24- 1-12
24-11-12
25-03-03
25-11-18
25-12-12
24- 9-13
24- 9-12
24- 6-10
24- 9.12
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24- 9-12
25.04-24
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24- 9-13
25-01-12
24- 9-12
25-10-14
24- 9-12
25-10-12
24- 9-13
24- 7.12
25-12-11
25-04-12
24- 9-12
Picture Features
LISTEN Insert
Alcohol—the Inside Story
Picture Feature
Feelings on Foods
Picture Feature
From Another l'oint of View
Graham, Kim—Miss American Teen-Ager.Picture Feature
Picture Feature
Industry Fights Drug Addiction
Schiff, Three Lions
"King Heroin"
Picture Feature
"Maybe They Didn't Know Better"
Mexico Pictures
Culver, Three Lions
Nightmare Trip to Nowhere and Back
'onsmoker—The Smart Type
25-10
24-10-14
25-10-05
24- 9- 5
24-12. 6
25-12-08
/4- 7-10
25-11-24
24- 3- 6
25-02-12
Volume, Issue, Page
Pills—An Extra Risk
Poster—Kicks
Poster Montage—Smoking
Posters by the American Heart
Association
Posters on Smoking From Canada
Smoking and Your Mouth
Smoking Posters
—So Why Smoke?
Teens Fish for Help
Telling It Cold Turkey
"The Broken Man"
Up From the Ashes
Your Heart—What Smoking May Do
Schiff, Three Lions
Jeanne Cunningham
25-11-08
24- 9-24
24- 7-24
Picture Feature
24. 2-18
25-07-24
25-02
25-02-23
24- 2-10
24-11-10
24- 8-16
24- 5-18
24- 6- 5
24- 2
LISTEN Insert
Picture Feature
Picture Feature
Picture Feature
Picture Feature
Picture Feature
...LISTEN INSERT
Poems
About Those Irritants
Alone
Answer, The
April
At the End of the Day
Chemical Warfare
Clouds—Speaking of
Concerning Gems
Constellations
Directive
Don't Blame the Kids
Drifter, The
Duel
For Real
From
Game of the Seasons
Grass Is My Power
Horse Sense
Hurry
Instant Mitigant
It's Up to Us
Late November
Loneliness
Look
Lost and Found
Love and Addiction
Mini-Mum Coverage
Miss Heroin
Obstruction
Patience
Progress?
Pusher, The
Snow Comes to the City
Supreme Transplant, The
Sure Cure
They Never Tell
To Find a Star
Too Late . , .
Trees and Men
Truth
Whiskey, Water Back
Who Am I?
Wrong Direction?
Young Listener
Mildred N. Royer
25-11-04
Harry Cummins
25-04-17
Bernice C. Heisler
25-06-23
Mildred N. Hoyer
25-04-04
Enola Chamberlin
24- 7-18
Ruth M. Walsh
25-05-18
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 7-17
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 5-17
J K. Shaw
24- 9- 4
Helen Sue Isely
24- 5- 6
Ruth M. Walsh
24- 7- 4
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 8- 8
Clare Miseles
24- 1- 5
Harry Cummins
25-02-08
John D. Engle, Jr.
24- 6- 9
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 3- 4
Mike Kirsh
24-11-15
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 1-18
Mildred N. Hoyer
24- 1-19
Ruth M. Walsh
25.06-17
Mildred N. Hoyer
25-12-04
Mildred N. Hoyer
24-11-17
Mildred N. Hoyer
25-09-05
John D. Engle, Jr.
25-02-07
Mildred N. Hoyer
25-02-17
Art Fettig
24- 8- 6
R M. Walsh
25-01-04
Anonymous Addict
25-01-24
Helen Sue Isely
24- 3-18
Helen Sue Isely
25-05-16
John D. Engel, Jr.
24- 1- 4
Marcella Caine
25-06-04
Sara Van Alstyne Allen
25-01-18
Mildred N. Hoyer
24-12-23
Helen Sue Isely
24- 8- 4
D. M. Pettinella
24-10-17
Mice Mackenzie Swaim ... 24-12- 9
J Lawrence
25-03-08
Grace Shattuck Bail
25-03.17
Shahjehan
24-10-18
Lisa Slater
25-12-17
Valerie Greer
25-10-24
Mildred N. Hoyer
25-08-08
Alice Kay Rogers
24- 1-14
Psychology & Mental Health
Age of Maturity, The
Shirley M. Dever
24- 2-17
Alcoholism Is Not a Disease
Margaret Troutt
24- 3-16
Anastas, Bob—Teens Talk With
25-03-11
Better Living? Yes, but Not
Through Chemistry
L Eugene Arnold, M.D.
24- 7- 3
Born Free
Francis A. Soper
24-12- 2
Can You Afford to Be Bored?
Shirley M. Dever
24-12-18
Choose Your Own Mask
Ruth C. Ikerman
25-11-16
Don't Let It Get You Down
LISTEN NEWS
25-04-21
Drug Curtain, The
Francis A. Soper
24-11- 2
Follow the Crowd
Marie Latta
24- 3- 9
Getting to the Root
Francis A. Soper
24- 2- 2
Guys, Gals, and Guilt
Shirley M. Dever
25-12-18
Here's the First Step
Ruth C. Ikerman
24- 3-23
How to Help a Person in Trouble
Tom Shipp
25-10-03
"How to Raise Your Parents"
Book Review
25-01-15
If Noise Annoys
Shirley M. Dever
25-03-18
If You Need to Lose Weight
J Wayne McFarland, M.D. 24-10-10
Listening to the Voices of Youth
Matthew P. Dumont, M.D. 25-12-06
Magic in Apologizing, The
Freda K. Routh
25-09-18
Only for X-Smokers
William N. Plymat
24- 7- 5
Seven Constructive Ways to
Handle Your Failures
Russell J. Fornwalt
24-11-18
Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
Irwin Ross, Ph.D
24- 1-14
Sunny "Whether"
Pat Kinnaman
24- 2- 9
Teen Image Builders!
Gene Church Schulz
24-12-12
Ten Ways to Put Fear to Work for You Art Fettig
25-01-18
38 Ways to Stay Young
LISTEN NEWS
25-04-20
"Untapped Generation, The"
Book Review
25-06-05
Uptight Squares Risk Cancer
LISTEN NEWS
24- 8-19
Dorothea Jones
Whenever You Have the "Blahs"—
24-10-11
Evelyn L. McCarty
Who Can You Turn To?
25-12.16
Youth Turn On to Life
LISTEN NEWS
25-02-20
Regular Features
Youth Asks—the Doctor Answers
R W. Spalding, M.D. .... 24- 1-15
Social & Cultural Aspects
Shirley M. Dever
Bit 0' Kindness, A
Shirley M. Dever
Can You Afford to Be Bored?
LISTEN Interview
('ash. Johnny and June Carter Cash
Do You Want a Bubbling Personality? Shirley M. Dever
LISTEN NEWS
Drugs Hurt Skin and Hair
L. E. Nicholson
Enough of This Sense-less Living!
....... Twyla Schlotthauer
Fitness and Femininity
Forsyth, Janene—Miss American
Twyla Schlotthauer
Teen-Ager for 1972
Graham, Kim—Miss American Teen-Ager. Picture Feature
Marie H. Wood
Grand Land Singers, The
LISTEN INSERT
Happy Days
25-01-14
24-12-18
25-09-12
25-02-08
24- 1-19
24- 7.14
25 08 12
25-09-08
24- 9- 5
24-10-12
24-10
Volume, Issue, Page
I Understand
Murray, Anne
Nonsmoker—The Smart Type
Teen Image Builders!
Thought Out and Thawed Out
Van Dyke, Vonda Kay—Singer
Where My Nose Begins
Young, Robert—Actor
24- 6-18
25-07-12
25-02-12
Gene Church Schulz
24-12-12
25-05-16
Shirley M. Dever
24- 4-12
LISTEN Interview
24- 1- 2
Francis A. Soper
as told to June Finletter ...25-04-11
Shirley M. Dever
LISTEN Interview
Smoking and Health
LISTEN NEWS
Don't Puff When You Drive
LISTEN NEWS
Drink and Smoke Don't Mix
"My Daddy Is Pretty Smart, but—" ....Marie Layne
Albert C. Koppel, D.D.S.
Nature Needs Your Help
Harry W. Daniell, M.D.
New Wrinkle, A
LISTEN
NEWS
Not a Leg to Stand On
Posters by the American Heart
Picture
Feature
Association
Francis A. Soper
Remove the Drag
LISTEN NEWS
Sky Segregation Is Better
Smoke, and You May Look Like a Prune.LISTEN NEWS
Smoking and Heart Arteries
L H. Lonergan, M.D. .
Smoking and the Heart
Smoking and the Oral Cavity
LISTEN NEWS
Smoking Cuts Blood Drug
Smoking Habit Hits in Many Ways ....LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
Smoking Impairs Thinking
Smoking Mothers Risk Harm to
LISTEN NEWS
Unborn Children
Picture Feature
—So Why Smoke?
LISTEN NEWS
Stay Thin, Don't Smoke
Steinfeld, Dr. Jesse—U.S. Surgeon
LISTEN Interview
General
LISTEN NEWS
Teen Smokers Damage Lungs
LISTEN NEWS
Ulcers From Nicotine
What Does the Mouth Have to Do
Dr. Alton Ochsner
With Lung Cancer?
Francis A. Soper
Where My Nose Begins
Francis A. Soper
Why Torture Rabbits?
Eric Martin
Will to Live, The
LISTEN NEWS
Women Are Now More Equal
Your Heart—What Smoking May Do ...LISTEN INSERT
R W. Spalding, M.D. .
Youth Asks—the Doctor Answers
25-01-22
25-01-21
25-02-03
25-02-10
25-08-15
25-08-21
24- 2-18
25-02-02
25-06-19
25-04-19
24- 2- 7
24- 2- 4
25-02-05
25-08-21
24- 6-20
25-10-20
24- 5-19
24- 2-10
24- 9-22
24- 3-12
24- 9-21
25-08-19
25-02-04
24- 1- 2
24- 6- 2
25-07-03
25-06-22
24- 2
24- 1-15
Smoking and Tobacco Education
ASH Wants Ban on Smoking
Dialogue One
Do You Smoke to Control Weight?
Fewer Teens Want Smokes
Magazines Are Smoking More
Moss, Frank E.—Senator
Nonsmoker—The Smart Type
Only for X-Smokers
Poster Montage—Smoking
Posters on Smoking From Canada
Senator With a Cause (Sen. Brooke)
Silent Majority
Smoking or Drugs? (Synanon program)
Smoking Posters
Teens Quit Smoking
Who Can Quit Smoking?
Marie H. Wood
LISTEN NEWS
24-11-22
25-12-15
24-10-15
24- 8-20
24- 9-19
24- 8-12
25-02-12
24- 7- 5
24- 7-24
25-07-24
25-08-03
25-08-02
25-02-09
25-02-23
25-04-15
25-01-20
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
George Kinney
George F. Kinney
George F. Kinney
24- 9-13
24- 9-12
24- 9.12
25-10-14
24- 9-13
24- 9-12
LISTEN NEWS
Ruben Gage
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN NEWS
LISTEN Interview
William N. Plymat
LISTEN Interview
Francis A. Soper
Joan Talmage Weiss
George F. Kinney
24- 9-13
George F. Kinney
24- 9-12
Charles Patti
25-10-14
George F. Kinney
24- 9-12
LISTEN Interview
25-10-12
George F. Kinney
24- 9-13
George F. Kinney
24- 7-12
Harry Cummins
25-04-12
George F. Kinney
24- 9-12
Harry Cummins
24- 1- 6
Joe and Virginia Parrott ...25-09-16
Chick Watson
Twyla Schlotthauer
Vinnie Ruffo
Henry F. Unger . .
George Kinney
25.03-23
25-08-12
24-11-12
25.03-03
25-11-18
Opal H. Young
Twyla Sehlotthauer
Francis A. Soper
Joseph N. Farley
24- 6-10
25-01-12
25-11-02
24- 1-12
25-12-11
Irwin Ross, Ph.D.
Adon Taft
24- 6-17
25-12-12
Stories
Atrocious Pink House, The
Brass Ring, The
Champion, The
Checkmate
Dial for Life
Fatso
Follow the Crowd
Four Feet Higher
From the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Ghost Town God
Gift for Mister
Great Books Lost
Holding Pattern
"I CAN Do All Things"
I Destroyed Christmas
"I Want to Live"
If I Didn't Sell It, Someone Else Would
Is There Need for Camouflage?
Maybe, Just Maybe
Mike Hell
Mr. Mortonhy's Myna Birds
Mustard Seed
"My Daddy Is Pretty Smart, but—"
My Dreams Went Pff-t-t
Night Scene
Pill Did It, The
Problem Mother
Tomorrow's Children
Vicious Circle, The
Visit I'll Never Forget, The
We've Made It!
Will to Live The
Yes, Brian, I Remember
Word Square
Sports
Baseball—Hopkins, Gail
Baseball—Jarvis, Pat
Baseball—Koonce, Calvin
Baseball—McDaniel, Lindy
Baseball—McNertney, Jerry
Baseball—Maxvill, Dal
Volume, Issue, Page
Baseball—Peterson, Fred
Baseball—Quilici, Frank
Baseball—Raymond, Bugs
Baseball—Robinson, Brooks
Baseball—Robinson, Brooks
Baseball—Sanguillen, Manny
Baseball—Stottlemyre, Mel
Baseball—Sutton, Don
Baseball—Timmerman, 'Thomas
Basketball—Mullins, Jeff
Climbing—A New "High"
Drag Racing—Harnessing the
Horsepower
Fitness and Femininity
Flying—Christensen, Frank
Flying—Conrad, Max
Golf—Crampton, Bruce
Gymnastics—Coach Kalua and the
Gymnics
Gymnastics—Pierce, Roxanne
Olympics—Part of the Best
Running—Bowles, Jim
Running—Sturgill, Virgil
Swimming—There's No Excuse for
Drowning!
Tennis—Evert Family
Blendena L. Sonnichsen .
Peggy Card
Ernie Holyer
Marjorie Grant Burns ..
as told to A. E. Terrill ...
Florence Sippy Bell
Marie Latta
Thea Trent
R M. Mayfield
Waible Patton
Wood Wilson
Ernie Holyer
Richard G. Hackenberg .
Kathryn S. Cooke
Bruce Cline
Blendena L. Sonnichsen
E. W. Minshull
Edith Coe
Blendena L. Sonnichsen
Goldie Down
Thea Trent
Marie Layne
as told to Eloise Fruge
Mary Speidel
Mollie Hewson
Carol Mayfield
T Casey Brennan
..
Blendena L. Sonnichsen
William Folorecht
Sandy Smith
Eric Martin
by Pam's Father
25-11-10
25-07-16
24- 5-16
24-12-11
25-04-08
25-05-17
24- 3- 9
25-09-03
24- 3- 3
25-01-16
24-12-16
24- 7-11
25-11-03
25-02-16
25-12-03
.25-12-15
24-10-16
24-12-13
25-04-09
.25-10-16
25-05-08
24- 2-14
25-02.03
25-10-15
25-04-06
25-06-10
24- 8- 9
24- 3- 8
25-08-16
25-08-18
24- 9-10
25-07-03
24- 7-16
Puzzles
Automotive Words
Fifty States, The
Find the Countries
Find the Trees
Our Spacemen
Water Words
LISTEN NEWS
Lois Soper
LISTEN NEWS
Mary E. Burdick
LISTEN NEWS
25-12-22
24- 7-22
24- 1-22
25-10-22
24- 3-22
25-02-22