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...Real Snake Pit...
...sale at 9 a. m., standing room went on sale at 9:30, and the "sold out" sign went up at 10. The hockey team is somewhat bitter about Harvard's blase crowds, but tonight they should have little to complain about. Watson Rink finally becomes a snake pit...
...have found an amazing number of ways to exploit it. Besides the score, there is the device of having the characters shadowed throughout the show by their former selves, wearing the glamorous old costumes and white-faced make-up. There are two bands, a rich Follies orchestra in the pit and a downbeat jazz combo for the party on stage. Choreographer and co-director Michael Bennett has blended the dance steps of two generations, and Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations switch constantly from the Busby Berkeley sound to that of Mahler. Most important of all, the cast is filled with show...
...films and teaching aids widely used in drug-education courses, the council found that 36 were "scientifically unacceptable"-including four of those distributed by the Pentagon and the armed services. Even those rated acceptable contained many inaccuracies. In one of the most popular films. Narcotics: Pit of Despair, for example, the commentary refers to a "pot-needle" (although pot is not injected), thereby inappropriately linking marijuana with heroin. LSD: Insight or Insanity is criticized for asserting flatly that LSD causes chromosome damage and birth defects when, in fact, the possible genetic effects of LSD are still debatable...
...fight is meant to be dramatic. It is one of two initial campaigns of the church's new Committee on Social Criteria for Investments, headed by Wall Street Lawyer Robert S. Potter. Another possible action, on which a report is due this week, is opposition to new open-pit mining operations in Puerto Rico by American Metal Climax and Kennecott, in which the national Episcopal Church office and local churches hold a combined $10 million in stock...