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...mere possession of marijuana is not presently a federal offense. Nixon would remedy that by making it a federal offense to possess or transfer marijuana without a state license-which is unobtainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Penalties and Programs | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...Hamlin) love for her son's young tutor Beliaev (Christopher Reeve), the play deals with quite contemporary themes: with the dominance that those who are loved have over those who love them, with the illusive freedoms men surrender in a futile attempts to capture other freedoms they can never possess. But in tone, it is quite the opposite from the explicitness and boldness that often act as blinders on the visions of modern theatre. This play's tone is much more akin to Bergman's delicate Smiles of a Summer Night. On Turgenev's pages, the dots of suspension...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: A Month in the Country | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

...criminal that tries to evade them. The dastardly Chaney can contrive to shoot Rooster and bash in La Boeuf's head and trap Mattie in a rattlesnake pit. But doom hangs over him. What devil, after all, could even hope to best good Christians who possess true grit-the 19th century version of soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Law and Ardor Candidate | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...reality, Ireland has a glorious history and its people possess a fighting spir it that centuries of unrelenting persecution by Britain could not suppress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...fence posts and rear bumpers; men often hit other cars head-on and at higher speeds. A separate survey by the World Health Organization made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They also do not drive as much at night or on dangerous rural roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Women Are Safer Drivers | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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