Word: baxters
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...