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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elsewhere in the country, resistance to softer pot laws continues. Though possession of marijuana in small quantities is now just a misdemeanor in Maine, police around Baxter State Park this summer are conducting a campaign to arrest campers who light more than camp fires. So far, raiders have busted more than 150 vacationers and slapped them with a total of $40,000 in fines. In Massachusetts, despite reduced penalties for marijuana use, 47% of all drug arrests in the state are still for pot. Florida Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart declares: "The thing that bothers me most is that authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Grass Grows More Acceptable | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

During the past 30 years, 20 of them spent working for the CIA, Hunt has managed to write no fewer than 47 novels under a string of pen names: John Baxter, Gordon Davis and Robert Dietrich, as well as David St. John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: E. Howard Hunt, Master Storyteller | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...will duel Harvard's Bill Haley and Carl Biello. "That Nisivochia is damn tough." Lee said. "He's going to give Haley a good match, believe me." Lee described Ciarocki as "scappy" and said Biello might have the edge in the 134 meeting. F&M's best grappler, Ed, Baxter, battles Harvard's Dan Blakinger...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Matmen Hope to Beat 3 Teams Today | 2/10/1973 | See Source »

...paper, this formula-ridden show has everything against it. A poor Jew named Bernie Steinberg (David Birney) marries a rich Irish Catholic named Bridget Fitzgerald (Meredith Baxter), while the four meddlesome in-laws, instead of cutting into the wedding cake, cut into each other. Surprisingly, the formula works, and Bridget Loves Bernie, whose ethnic humor descends from Abie's Irish Rose (the long-running comedy of the '20s) down through All in the Family, is one of the brighter comedy spots of the new season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Captain James Baxter, 47, an Annapolis graduate who is a director of the Navy's Alcohol Abuse Control Program, has good reason to believe that liquor can be beaten. He is a recovered alcoholic himself. Of the nearly 200 patients treated at Little Creek since it opened, only 30% have relapsed to the bottle; 70% are now performing regular duty-soberly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drydock for Sailors | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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