Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loosen the legal straitjacket, eight states recently have reduced the penalty for possessing marijuana from a felony to a misdemeanor, or given their judges the discretion of reducing it. Their action is in line with the recommendations of every national commission that has studied the subject since a White House conference on drug abuse in 1962?and directly opposite to the tack that the Nixon Administration is taking...
...screen local TV and radio commercials or scan newspaper ads to detect the fraudulent practices-fictitious pricing, home-improvement gyps, "bait-and-switch"schemes-that the FTC's own studies indicate are widely practiced in ghetto areas. The main reason for this failing is that the commissioners have given their staff little guidance as to what kind of cases to concentrate on. The staff has been reacting to whatever complaints happen to come in the mail, mostly from businessmen against competitors, rather than doing legwork. The FTC has an Office of Program Review that is supposed to set priorities...
...York Film Festival shows signs of becoming a kind of Pre-Vue Theater. There are no winners or losers, since no prizes are given. Over half of the 23 films presented this year at Lincoln Center will show up in regular theaters soon (in some cases only days) after their festival screening. Begun seven years ago as a showcase for the choice of the European festivals, New York's staid and sometimes pompous affair has thus each year become more and more a distributors' proving ground. Oddly enough, the attitude of the festival's sponsors doesn...
...sensitivity" session-and neither, unfortunately, can the film's authors, who ought to go see the skit about wholesome swingers in that succes de scandale Off-Broadway, Oh! Calcutta! The dialogue remains flaccid throughout, badly in need of the kind of cutting edge that Billy Wilder could have given it. What Mazursky and Tucker obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood. Why B&C&T&A was chosen to open a presumably serious film festival on the gala first night is a mystery...
...research will be used is one that needs to be pursued honestly and with a grounding in reality. The argument is made that since the Cambridge Project is funding "basic" research, there is no sure way of determining how whatever applications may eventually arise from a given research project will be put into use-and that therefore science should be allowed to run its course. But while it is true that the outcome of theoretical or advanced research is impossible to forecast with great accuracy, that does not mean that we can only assume that...