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...does marijuana affect a normal, successful adult? The following account was written for TIME by a married 29-year-old Ivy League college graduate. He is levelheaded and ambitious, and works a taxing 50-hour week at a responsible job. He began turning on eight months ago, now uses marijuana twice a week on the average. He is not trying to persuade anyone else to follow his example...
...locals to end bias. Many other union leaders insist that they must move slowly or be voted out of office by white members who consider the Negro's rise a threat to their own status and security. Disputing that belief, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther argues that on-the-job friction between white and Negro workers reflects poor leadership. "Where there is a moral commitment and initiative by labor leaders," says Reuther, "there will be no trouble with the rank and file...
...Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon has offered to move down and serve until 1974 as one of the five commissioners. Nixon could name the new man as early as this week, when the seven-year term of Commissioner James Nicholson expires...
...Susan Sontag's prose style is laborious, her film making is absolutely benumbing. Duet for Cannibals, which looks alternately like a third-rate Monogram thriller and a dirty soap opera, has something to do with a young man who gets a job as secretary to a paranoid politician. "He's full of fantasies of persecution and disaster," the lad confides to his mistress, who eventually winds up in bed between the boss and his crazy wife. At film's end, characters die and are reborn again with a facility that suggests that Director Sontag is not without...
...scattering of bureaus within the Pentagon which concern themselves with social science research. The notion that the behavioral sciences could be of much use to the U.S. military has always been regarded with considerable skepticism by most ranking officials at the Pentagon, and after the Camelot disaster the job of selling the behavioral sciences was that much more difficult. This meant that such outfits as the Behavioral Science Program of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) were increasingly hard put to justify their continued existence. What the Behavioral Science Program needed was a new largescale project that...