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Died. Harry Anslinger, 83, single-minded head of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics from its creation in 1930 until he retired in 1962; in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Convinced that "all dope" from marijuana to morphine was dangerous, the bullnecked, bald Anslinger wanted to "get rid of drugs, pushers, and users. Period." He urged judges to jail offenders, then "throw away the key." After Anslinger helped push through the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, arguing that "an epidemic of dope addiction" was crippling America's youth, marijuana was virtually banned from medical practice and deleted from the United...
...Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal production, underwrite state efforts to develop fuel-saving programs and provide for the creation of an oil reserve of 500 million to 1 billion bbl. of oil as a hedge against another Arab oil embargo...
...committee's solution, released this fall, is a step in the right direction, but one that will need further step to achieve its goal. The committee has proposed the creation of a Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Council--composed of representatives of every House group and other groups outside the 150-member HDC--to decide on the use of the mainstage, in order to do away with the favoritism and friendship networks that too often in the past have influenced the HDC's choice of mainstage seasons...
These groups justifiably oppose the creation of an overall Harvard-Radcliffe council that would decide on use of the mainstage, pointing to the unwieldy number of representatives the council would have to seat to represent all groups; and more important, every individual group--none of whom number anywhere near a majority of students active in drama--worries that an overall council would eventually be able to dictate policy for every group...
SYLP, Support Your Local Police, "dramatically blocked the Communists' attempt to destroy local police forces through the creation of Police Review Boards, and continually battled Federal government attempts to create a national gestapo...