Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's theater never lives by money and talent alone. Zest, hard work, devotion and love must be present. One woman in New York epitomizes those qualities: Ellen Stewart, the indefatigable doyenne of off-off-Broad way's experimental Café La Mama. Out of La Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely...
Present drug laws are inequitable as well as widely unenforceable. Most statutes do not distinguish hard narcotics from marijuana, or the pusher from the user. Arrests for marijuana law violations last year totaled 80,000; they increased tenfold between 1963 and 1968. Yet, for all the massive expenditures of police time and money, pot smoking is so widespread that there are roughly 25 times as many users as there are places to hold them in all the nation's prisons. The chances of being jailed for using pot are probably less than one in 1,000, NIMH's Dr. Cohen...
...sentencing proposals in the Administration's bill overrode the milder recommendations that had been agreed on by many officials in the departments of Justice and Health, Education and Welfare. The measure raises penalties for LSD, and keeps marijuana in the same classification as hard narcotics. The minimum jail sentence for a first offense would be two years. The bill's only concession permits a judge to release on probation first offenders who are found guilty and, if they behave properly, to dismiss them with a clean criminal record...
...Northwind, which was hobbling on five of its six engines. Within seconds, the tanker was surrounded by ice hummocks blown into its wake by high winds. Captain Steward reversed the engines, then charged the Arctic ice, which, because of its age, had lost its salt content and become rock-hard. When the 10-to 15-ft.-thick ice would not give after twelve hours, the stubby Canadian icebreaker John A. Macdonald was called to the rescue...
Helped and encouraged by the U.A.W. leadership, Detroit automakers have hired thousands of Negroes during the past two years. Many were among the 60,000 hard-core unemployed who have gone to work in auto plants. On the other hand, despite mounting shortages of skilled construction workers, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. building unions admitted only 5,168 Negro apprentices last year, 3.9% of all new apprentices...