Present-day bicycle boom revived by history and medicine
A columnist recollects a July ride and a news article on bicycle culture from the 1890s. The essay traces medical views from Dr. Paul Dudley White to recreational cycling, noting debates on health benefits, dangers, and the shift from adult use to a child’s toy after 1903.
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Peter Bourne
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The
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Paul Dudley White
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Vivid lessons unheeded as drug subculture survives
The article traces the drug explosion after 1950 from opium and coca through marijuana and heroin to LSD, noting the shift from elite concern to a campus and youth culture. It highlights causes from rock culture to war, media, and permissiveness, and cites a parent guide on drug abuse while warning of moral decline and persistent subcultures seeking meaning through drugs.
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Alfred E. Goehringer Jr
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Meany faces possible break with Carter over labor policy
President Carter has grown tired of AFL-CIO leader George Meany's repeated criticism of administration labor and economic policy. A White House aide says Meany’s finger pointing at defeats in Congress is the last straw and that the era of presidential accommodation with Meany may be ending.
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