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...fight over the shape of the future is even fiercer on the local level than in the state capitals of the Northwest. The battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white...
...looks like another long winter in Ithaca as Cornell lost to Syracuse by 27 points on Saturday. The Big Red are bolstered by Mike Schaeffer and Steve Decker, who formerly were respectively enrolled at Mercer Junior College and Joliet Junior College...
...concern about the effects of marijuana took on a new dimension during his four-year stay in Princeton. Humes says he began to notice a "heavy influx of treated grass" coming into the Mercer County, N.J. area in the early '70s, and he decided to look into the matter by systematically collecting samples of the worst batches of chemically-strengthened marijuana. Princeton police placed Humes under arrest for marijuana possession on July 16, 1973 during a routine visit to serve him with another arrest warrant for a probation violation. He was taken into custody for having collected the samples...
Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year...
...park bench together, Warner exclaims with surprise, "I've got an erection." Burstyn, who has been trying to seduce him all film, is pleased. "It's not mine," he insists. "Then whose is it?" taunts Bogarde, who has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Resnais and scriptwriter David Mercer are nothing if not clever...