Cocaine

February, 1987

CocaineThe Schoolyard that Wharton Lee Madkins oversees is one of many of its kind. The children he supervises six hours a day are typical of thousands across the nation. On a cul-de-sac in a quiet middle-class American suburb is the neighborhood recreation center over which he exercises authority. Today it is overrun, as it is six days a week, with citizens yet to achieve voting age, burning off enough energy to incinerate the place.In no hurry to impose order upon the chaos all around him, Mad...