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A San Francisco architect got his first fraction of an ounce of pot as a gift. He and his date did a ham-handed job of rolling joints that dripped leaves at both ends. Somehow they smoked them. What happened? "Exactly nothing. The next night we rolled four joints and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Pot: Safer than Alcohol? | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

> In New York, Macbird, a ham-handed attack on Lyndon Johnson that makes no sense, flashes no wit, and deserves no mercy, was beginning negotiations for rental of an off-Broadway theater in which it plans to open in November. It presents the President and Lady Bird as latter-day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Voices of Protest | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Columbia is far from being an Army, but the Lions are still a respectable ball club. The Lions' leading hitter is shortstop Steve Richman, who owned an incredible .475 batting average after last weekend's victories over Penn and Princeton. Richman, however, is a ham-handed fielder, as are the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Brings East's Best Pitcher To Game With Harvard Saturday | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: La Bomba Recuperada! | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Because of this hostility-and the fact that the majority of top U.S. humorists are Jewish-Jews figure prominently among the dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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