Word: gravest
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...legislature to draw the lines of what is to be permitted as an open area of choice and what is to be prohibited as a social evil. So long as the legislature outlaws the possession of marihuana, the use of the drug, even in moderation, is fraught with the gravest personal risks. Only the foolhardly would find the pleasure of marihuana out-weighing the pain of prolonged imprisonment. The consequence now provided under Acts of Congress for possession and, more particularly, for what is denominated smuggling (but which in fact means possession coupled with a jury inference that the marihuana...
...cities -a crisis that will not be solved with mere rhetoric or even the force of law. The Coalition's members gathered at Washington's Shoreham Hotel in full awareness that it will take a stupendous effort, financial as well as philosophical, to meet the gravest internal threat to the nation since the Depression. Their differences forgotten, the cross-section of American leadership offered the most clear-cut program yet devised for the ills of the cities...
Necessary and laudable as these efforts are, they mostly represent a pathetically belated and piecemeal approach to one of the gravest social dilemmas the nation has ever faced...
That sort of interchange is symptomatic of the Courier's gravest problem: most of its staff members are from the North, and they are white. One hope of early Courier staffers was that local talent could be recruited, trained, and finally put in command; at the starting pay of $25 per week the first step has proved rather difficult. While most of the Courier's office workers are Negro, only three of its salaried reporters are. The rest, including Editor Michael S. Lottman '62, former managing editor of the CRIMSON and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, are graduates...
...many Negroes, the gravest grievance is one engendered by somebody's idea of an urban improvement. Last year Addonizio designated 46 acres of the Central Ward as the new campus for the New Jersey State College of Medicine and Dentistry-a move that would force some 3,500 Negroes out of their homes. However dilapidated those dwellings might be, the threat raised hackles throughout the city. A subsequent proposal to extend two interstate highways that pass near Newark through the downtown area might displace 20,000 more Negroes. The resolution of these problems is not yet clear...