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Marijuana, which has long been considered by Americans to be something frightfully obscene and lower considered by Americans to be something frightfully obscene and lower class, is now not such a terrible thing at all. You can talk about it at cocktail parties, tell your friends that you (or someone you know) has tried it, and you can condemn those anachronistic drug laws. The gut re-action most people used to have to pot users -- lumping them together with hard-line heroin addicts and calling the whole lot disgusting--is rapidly vanishing...
...that you always sit at a table for eight-but you can change tables for any meal. This spring Hilton Hotels launched a special tour to Puerto Rico aimed at the singles market: "What can you expect for $133 on your Hilton Swingles Week in San Juan?" A welcoming cocktail and plenty of action, "fashion shows, cinema, horse racing, free feature motion pictures and a souvenir photograph of you and your new friends...Sound like your line of fun?" In the first four months, Hilton reported happily, it had 1,200 applicants-even if it was the off season...
Double Standard. To track down cases and contacts, Dr. Fiumara's investigators pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that...
...perhaps twice what a single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black velvet cocktail dress featuring a large black satin bow, with puffs of black lace as collar and cuffs. Last week both looked like sure winners among the 40 dresses, suits and coats that Ohrbach's brought back from Paris...
...Beer. An islander of Chinese-Portuguese-German-Dutch ancestry, Don grew up on the other side of the mountains from Honolulu in Kaneohe, where his parents ran a neon cocktail lounge called Honey's. A top high school athlete, he won a scholarship to Springfield (Mass.) College. But after a homesick year, he finished up at the University of Hawaii (sociology), then spent five years as an Air Force pilot. "When I realized I'd never get to be a general," he says, "I resigned my commission and came home to run Honey's. Business...