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Word: finer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dizzy because there are so many grounds for appeal on both technical and constitutional grounds." He claimed that the amount of marijuana involved would cost thirty cents in Mexico and three dollars in New York City -- "incommensurate with a $30,000 fine." However, one of Leary's lawyers, Joel Finer of Austin, Texas, called the heavy sentence "meaningless" because it is not a final sentence. Finer explained that Judge `Connally had an option to impose final sentence on Leary Friday or to commit him for 90-day psychiatric observation first...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Leary Plans Drug Conviction Appeal, Urges Test Case of Marijuana Laws | 3/14/1966 | See Source »

...order to do so, he had to impose an initial maximum sentence because Federal statute prohibits commitment without it. "In other words," Finer said, "the 30 years and $30,000 was just a device to get information on Leary...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Leary Plans Drug Conviction Appeal, Urges Test Case of Marijuana Laws | 3/14/1966 | See Source »

...never attract the kind of manpower they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time, the highly sophisticated technique of the film insures that the finer points of that philosophy will reach the audience...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: A Choice I Made | 3/2/1966 | See Source »

They will choose their government and the opportunity for a decent, finer life for the humblest of citizens, and they will reject the Communist system of terror and torture, extortion and fear. And when that choice is finally made, then the Viet Cong will wither and fade away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Have Talking Cell, Will Travel | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...aide, naval attaché to Ottawa; General Juan de los Santos Céspedes, current air force chief of staff, air attaché to Israel. Twenty-two more army, air force and police officers were assigned to an "indefinite" tour of duty studying the finer points of military organization in Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Bingo Night | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

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