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What the Mexicans christened marijuana (literally "Mary Jane") is a variable combination of female cannabis seed heads with leaves and chopped-up stalks. At best, say U.S. pharmacologists, the mixture is only about one-tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen...
Bumplcins in Buckskin. As international expositions go, HemisFair is a minifair, only slightly larger than Seattle's Century 21 but only one-tenth the size of Montreal's Expo '67, the alltime giant. As a result, the exposition is "manageable in human terms," says HemisFair's chief designer, Allison Peery, meaning that all the exhibits are within easy walking distance. On the elevated "people expressway," no point is more than a ten-minute walk from any other, and for variety there are flower-bedecked barges plying the canals, a minimonorail, and that familiar world...
...Their absence won't lessen the poll's accuracy," Harris explained because the military academies represent only one-tenth of one per cent of the nation's students. "But we wish they could have had a chance to express their opinions," he said...
...four feet ahead of Yurow. Then in the last length Pringle began to tire. The rested Yurow started to close the gap. With ten yards to go only inches separated the two, and the inches were rapidly disappearing. But Pringle proved to be the champion, touching out Yurow by one-tenth of a second and sending the Eastern Championship to Harvard for the first time in 24 years...
...antiwar sentiment has become something of a national obsession. An anti-U.S. Swedish Committee on Viet Nam, headed by Economist Gunnar Myrdal (TIME, March 15), claims a membership of 600,000 Swedes, nearly one-tenth of the population. Last month Myrdal's group staged a torchlight parade that brought 6,000 marchers into Stockholm's snowbound streets. In a move that is highly unusual for a technically friendly government, the marchers were led by none other than Erlander's heir apparent, Olof Palme, 41, the Education Minister. Swedish-American relations have become so bad, in fact...