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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard should exert its influence in favor of decriminalization for dope possessors and personal users." Slayton said...

Author: By Nancy L. Perkins, | Title: Students Organize NORML Chapter To Legalize Dope | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...shaky case indefinitely. Postponements, recesses, objections, motions, depositions, unavailability of client or lawyer?the list of stalling techniques is endless. Sometimes the intent is to squeeze a cash-starved opponent into a disadvantageous settlement. Or it can be even more pernicious. In Chicago, an attorney for a notorious dope dealer won 72 postponements over four years on the ground that he had trials elsewhere. A judge finally tired of that game and ordered the trial to proceed; the jury needed only 30 minutes to return with a conviction. Another way to wear down the opposition is to "paper" a case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Anxiety, so most of his good lines seem like deadpanned straight lines. Only once is Brooks himself very funny--in a scene with Kahn in which they dress and speak like an old Yiddishe couple in order to get past security cops at an airport-"Vattaya tink, ve smuggle dope in da celery?" Significantly, this bit of shtick reflects Brooks's earlier days as a Jewish comedian. The voice he uses in that scene is the same one he used as the 2000-Year-Old Man back in 1960. For all his attempts to change his patter, Brooks...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...neon strip with honky-tonks and liquor outlets on the Arkansas side facing fast-food and, religious book stores on the dry Texas side. The region's wooded terrain makes it an appealing hiding place for the so-called Dixie Mafia, a loosely confederated band of car thieves, dope runners, hijackers and assorted thugs who prey on towns across the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keystone Kops | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...concept of Clint Eastwood as the justice-bent dope is more important than Richard Dreyfuss as the awestruck moron being carted off to Mars where everything will be just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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