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Childhood friends are on brink Moonlight Madness saves of success in music business NEW YORK (AP) As childhood chums growing up in suburban Montclair, N.J., Darcy Miller and Gail Boggs each had highly personalized visions of "success." Gail, daughter of a tree surgeon and his dietician wife, wanted to be a dancer-singer, while Darcy, whose father is a college vice president and whose mother is a guidance counselor, aspired to bio- psychology. "When I was in high school," Monks help addicts SARABURl. Thailand (AJ-'i For 16 years former police undercover agent Charoon Panchan has been successfully treating narcotics addicts with the spiritual techniques of a Buddhist monk. His treatment combines herbs, baths, meditation and a solemn vow. Says one Western narcotics officer: "It's unorthodox, sure, but you can't argue with success." More than 27,000 addicts, mostly teen-agers and elderly opium smokers, have taken their problems to Phra Charoon's Temple of the Bamboo Cave 80 miles north of Bangkok.

Phra Charoon says it is impossible to tell how many have been cured permanently, because they do not come back. But Thai narcotics officials say the great majority free themselves from heroin, morphine and opium forever a considerably better record than most drug treatment centers largely because of the vow. "They invite condemnation by all the spirits of their religion if they break their promise, and most of them really believe it will happen," says Police Col. Chavalit Yodmanee, head of the National Narcotics Suppression Center. Recently, Phra Charoon was awarded the Philippines' annual Magsaysay award for public service.

For the first time the presentation took place outside the Philippines, in deference to the monk 20-year vow to travel only on foot. Because a monk cannot himself accept money the $10,000 award was received by former defense minister Dawee Chullasao. The Temple of the Bamboo Cave currently has about 300 addicts under treatment and 150 other monks helping Phra Charoon. Gail exclaims, "I used to warn my mother, 'I'm gonna be a Broadway star some 'Sure, she'd say. 'Just gel home tonight by 11 "I won The biology award in my senior year," Darcy says wistfully.

"I was sure I'd end up as a scientist, making great discoveries about the electrochemical functions of the brain Five years later, Miss Boggs has begun to realize her dream, while Miss Miller has traded a test tube for a typewriter as a budding songwriter. Both "couldn't be happier." Gail and Darcy, now in their mid-20s, are "on the edge of success," creating and crooning hit songs for some of today's Top rock singers. high school and an ill- fated brush with higher Missionaries willfinally leave Vietnam RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) A Minnesota missionary couple detained for seven months in South Vietnam after the Communist takeover will be allowed to return home soon, relatives in Richfield have been advised. Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Phillips are among about 50 American citizens that North Vietnam and the new government of South Vietnam have agreed to free, according to Mrs. Phillips' parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Tilman Amstutz.

Dr. L. L. King, New York, foreign secretary of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, called the parents late Monday and told them the news. He said he had verified a report that the missionary couple will be released after contacts with the U.S.

State Department and the United. Nations. Amstutz said he expects the couple will stop in California to visit their four children before returning to Minnesota. The children were attending a school in Malaysia when Communist forces overran Vietnam's Central Highlands last March and their parents were captured. The children are school in Yucaipa, Calif.

The missionary couple was reported to have been held in a stockade in Pleiku Province. Om their return to Minnesota, the Phillipses will live at St. Paul Bible College, St. Bonifacius, where they have been designated missionaries- in-residence. SPECIALS EVERY 15 MM.

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Nit, 1 27 Pood Unit Special Hot Dogs 33 if QUALITY rOURF. LOOKIHG fQR education, Miss Boggs headed for New York in quest of fame, while Miss Miller became a nomadic bio-science major, moving from college to college in quest of a program that suited her scholarly designs. Gail was the first to gain a taste of her hea rt's desire. "After months of casting calls, I landed a part in an otf- Broadway revue-rock opera called 'Mother she says. "It was a fun play, composed of skits, with most of the action taking place on a jungle gym the cast climberl around on.

I played a robot and a monkey, and even had my own song, which I belted out until the show closed 14 days later." Gail's life then became an endless audition for countless plays, and even the panels of quiz shows, before she was chosen as an understudy for Joseph Papp's production of "Iphigenia and later the chorus of the musical "Candide," which became a hit on Broadway. Her first big break, came when she landed the female lead of Silvia in the Australian road company of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." "The part called for a black woman," says Gail. "There aren't many black actresses in Thursday, Oct. 23, 1975 Mitchell Daily Republic Mail Oct. 24,1075 Australia, so they had to import one me.

It was a learning 'experience, but it ended so quickly, and I was back in New York again, pounding the pavement." A chance encounter on a street corner, aided by Gail's ebullient nature, proved the turning point for Darcy and her. Gail recalls? "I was standing on the intersection of Broadwav and 46th watchinjt this nut who was veiling Anvbodv got a at passersby." I realized (hat Todd Rundgren. the rock musician, was standing next to me also watching. I just began talking to him, saying rock 'n' rollers should pay njore attention to what's jioing on in the legitimate theater. "My boldness shocked him, but he ended up introducing me to his friends.

Next thing I knew, I was singing backup in his band and on the albums of groups like Hall and Gates." Gail phoned her high-school sidekick and related her newfound happiness. She urged Darcy, then in her third consecutive university, to drop everything and join her. "Gail knew that I could carry a tune, because we sang together in a choral group in high school," says Miss Miller, "and she knew I'd always wanted to write songs, because I'd shown her my poetry. "Instead of doodling chemistry equations, I started scribbling song lyrics day and night." Gail arranged an introduction with the staff of Bearsville Records, who were so impressed with Miss Miller's "scribblings" that she was recommended to ex-Young Rascal Felix Cavaliere, then recording his second album for the label. Cavaliere chose "Destiny." one of her efforts, as the title song of his new LP.

Before the album was finished, Darcy had collaborated with him on half its contents, and she and Gail sang backup along with veteran Laura Nyro. "After a long, difficult search for direction, I suddenly find I have clear-cut, responsible Darcy. "Incidentally," she adds, "I've discovered that women in the lively arts have to be especially businesslike to accomplish things. You're constantly confronted by men who want you to be a little girl who'll sit in their lap to.get a contract." Gail and Darcy hardly fall into the superstar category, but their talents are already in considerable demand. Their reaction is somewhat philosophical.

"Our generation is long on ideas and short on patience," says Darcy. "If you re willing to search and don't mind trial- and-error, you'll find a career you can live with." Childhood chums enter show business Darcy Miller, left, whose early dream was to he a scientist, and Gail Boggs, who wanted to be a Broadway star when she was growing up in Montclair, Kroehler SOFA A Kroehler contemporary sofa with Herculon cover. Rust, brown, black, and white pen- line stripes. Reg. $469.50.

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