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Doughnuts. In contrast, Arizona's Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, the only declared candidate in the herd, served coffee and doughnuts while they lasted but had 85 volunteers-the largest contingent at the convention-hand ing out his low-budget literature. Senator Henry Jackson, the present front runner by the measure of zeal if not appeal, mounted the best-organized campaign. Sitting in a trailer on the floor beneath the auditorium, Jackson played host to a stream of delegates selected by his 35 coordinators. Jackson, who already has $500,000 in his war chest, was the guest of honor...
...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...
...Objection. A week before the trial, the presiding judge, James E. Buckingham, called in local newspaper editors and informed them that lawyers for the defense had succeeded in hav ing the cases of the two defendants separated. Therefore, said the judge, two juries would be hearing the same evidence, one after the other, and coverage should be deferred. The request was then relayed to broadcasters. "We didn't want the second group of jurors reading the newspapers about the first case," Buckingham explained last week. "We have no desire to muzzle the press in any way. We just asked...
Perhaps. But now that 1984 is well within the sights of the medium-range planners, what technocrat would care to prejudice his findings by observing, "Between now and 1984," as if he were say ing, "Between now and Armageddon . . ."? As it comes ever closer, the year 1984 may well become, like the 13th floor on the elevator bank, a rubric best bypassed...
Moyer has even bigger plans - a downtown renovation program that will include new federal and state buildings and a senior citizens' center as well. "People have hope here now," says the mayor, a hope all the healthier for be ing made of home-grown ingenuity...