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Turned On for Exams. Savvy students seem to have little trouble cultivating a "connection" to secure marijuana-most often in the form of a $5 "nickel box" (matchbox size)-in New York City, Harvard Square, California's Sausalito and elsewhere. Up to 40 "joints" (cigarettes) can be fashioned from a box, making marijuana cheaper per kick than alcohol...
...Natalia Goncharova, who would not let him paint anything recognizably real. Then he began to follow his own bent, meticulously rendering real objects in a bright, orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile of "Caucasian...
...Prices naturally rise fastest in the most rapidly growing and most crowded areas: California, Florida, Arizona and metropolitan New York. In the East, prices get a boost from many suburban communities that resort to "snob zoning" to keep out the creeping city. Reasoning that an influx of families in matchbox homes would overload their schools with children, these communities have zoned all lots for one, two and three acres. "They're attempting birth control by zoning," says Royce...
Swarthmore,* which last week began celebrating its centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding Quaker mates. But ever since the 1920s, when pioneering President Frank Aydelotte set the matchbox on intellectual fire, Swarthmoreans have won all sorts of academic honors...
...crude circle in charcoal. Finally, he jumped into a waiting car and roared off toward the Moscow River. Shortly afterward, another American ducked into a house at 5-6 Pushkin Street, where he surreptitiously reached behind a hallway radiator. As he was about to pocket the paper-wrapped matchbox that had been concealed there, Russian counterespionage agents burst in and arrested...