Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slur was enough to make every Cornhusker huff-if not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly...
...Almanac is carried over from previous years; the rest consists of new facts and figures. The 1968 edition, for instance, contains the zip code for all communities of more than 2,500 population and color pictures of the flags of all nations, including those of newly independent Guyana (red, green and yellow) and Botswana (white, black and blue). Even so, fact-hungry readers are never satisfied. When the Almanac tries to drop some marginalia, such as the gestation period of animals or the equivalents of Roman numerals, it invariably gets complaints. A reader recently wrote to say that...
More than ever before, this season professional football needs its rookies to fill up its ranks. Injuries are ripping through rosters so steadily that sports pages read like medical reports. Even sanguine Coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers admits: "These days, we're happy to get out of games with our lives...
...Harper's Bazaar used to be able to say, 'This year you wear green,' or whatever," says its editor, Nancy White, "but not any longer." Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland agrees that what gives the new fashions their fresh look and vitality is youth: "This generation stepped out and away and did things their way." As a result, notes Vreeland, "no one is obliged to wear anything she doesn't want to, and one can go as far as she wants. She can wear absolutely anything that is wildly becoming...
Harvard Debate Council officers for 1967-68 are: president, Steven P. Goldberg '69 of Leverett House and Silver Spring, Md.; vice-president, Joel S. Perwin '70 of Quincy House and Coral Gables, Fla.; treasurer, Edward W. Jones '70 of Kirkland House and Bowling Green, Va.; corresponding secretary, Frances Pritchett '69 of South House and Little Rock, Ark.; home secretary, Ronald T. Luke '70 of Kirkland House and Dallas, Texas,; director of publicity, James M. Fallows '70 of Adams House and Redlands, Calif.; and director of research, Robert H. Daniels '69 of Quincy House and Burlington...