Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alaska has no penalties at all for possession of small amounts. Nine other states* have reduced the penalties; 34 more may follow suit. Entrepreneurs would like to cash in on the growing demand for pot. Louisville Promoter Gatewood Galbraith has organized a grassroots campaign to put Kentucky in a position to corner the market if and when pot is legalized. Says he: "Kentucky's already got parimutuel betting. It's got whisky and it's got tobacco. You just can't beat the combination of marijuana and money." Under his plan, the state would license growers...
Lacking manpower to follow up all leads, harassed police put instinctive priorities on them. They sought information on more than 1,500 men, placing the most likely suspects under surveillance. TIME Correspondent John Tompkins reports that at the time of the latest shooting, detectives were tailing twelve top suspects. Remarkably, seven or eight were present or former cops; one was a former FBI agent. The killer showed he was familiar with police work in his note to Breslin; he also fires his .44 in the police-approved two-handed, legs-apart crouch. "We're dealing with someone with training...
...planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better off: a pilot once asked in what order he should land and was told by an exasperated controller, "There are 127 airplanes to follow. Find the last one and follow him." Another controller simply despaired and suggested that everyone clear the area and come back later...
...purports to be the biography of Wendell Scott, who may be described loosely as the Jackie Robinson of auto racing-the first black man to cross the color line in his sport. One says "purports" because it is almost impossible to believe that any real life could so unerringly follow the classic lines of so many biopix past. The cheerfully determined young man struggling to support his family while trying to fulfill his ambitions, the opposition from the Establishment in his field, the early heartbreaks, the ultimate triumph-all this is the familiar stuff of a hundred celluloid dreams that...
Clitics say the firm's traditionally offhand style has deteriorated into indecisiveness under Christina's helmsmanship. Complains a French banker: "She can't concentrate. She'll really get into a subject, but then her mind will get onto something else. She has no follow-through." But others point out that nothing much has really changed, and that Ari himself was a notorious dilly-dallier who would often seem to agree on a deal only to back down at the last moment...