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...been the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Founded in 1971 by an aggressive young lawyer, Keith Stroup, NORML--fueled by Stroup's vision of himself as the Ralph Nader of dope--became a legitimate lobby to be reckoned with and Stroup became a flamboyant power broker. High in America is journalist-novelist Patrick Anderson's account of NORML, the politics of pot and the rise and fall of Stroup, the man who got high for your sins...
...zealous following, most remain skeptical about his method and latest feat They complain that if a brokerage firm sent out a message similar to that of Granville, it would be charged by the Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission with using "extravagant and inflammatory language." Snapped one broker last week: "Granville got $5 million worth of free publicity by shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater...
Leisure Corp., a hotel and casino company, to return about $22 million to investors because the firm and its broker had, among other things, made fraudulent claims about the stock's potential...
...smoking and roller disco) and so returned to the Real Thing, temporarily no doubt. It is all transient fashion, the cynic would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green and a lightning bolt tattooed above her left breast, is now being seen wearing a simple little black dress...
...effort to act as the Arabs' honest broker-despite its own pro-Iraq leanings-Saudi Arabia tried to persuade Syria to attend, and very nearly succeeded. Crown Prince Fahd flew to Damascus shortly before the summit, TIME learned, and personally pleaded with Assad. At first the Syrian leader agreed to come, provided the conference was postponed two weeks. But when he declared his intention to condemn Iraq and to say that the war was the result of collusion among Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and the U.S., Fahd told him to stay home...