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...peskiest poker of Administration balloons has been Harold Goldstein, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' assistant commissioner in charge of analyzing the most politically potent figure of all, the jobless rate. Last January he rightly called the .2% drop in unemployment "marginally significant." Labor Secretary James Hodgson, however, publicly declared that the drop had "great significance.'' In March, when Hodgson termed a slight decrease in unemployment "heartening," Goldstein called it "a mixed picture." Apprised of Hodgson's view, Goldstein replied: "I am not here to support or not support the Secretary's statement. I am here...
...that "feeding" the rats marijuana through tubes inserted directly into their stomachs is about one-sixth as effective as inhalation. On the other hand, the smallest chronic dosage given to any of the groups of rats was 30 times as high as that inhaled by heavy users of less potent, natural marijuana. Moreover, to duplicate the rat experiment with humans, the scientists estimated, a subject would have to puff his way through 50 joints of marijuana a day. Even so, the results of the experiment raise the possibility that the processes that took place in the brains of the test...
...toddy tappers of Tamil Nadu triumphed last week after 23 years of temperance. Toddy is a potent and pungent Indian drink fermented from palm sap, traditionally collected by tappers who scamper daily to treetops to retrieve earthenware pots filled with sap tapped from the trees. But toddy tapping became a near-forgotten craft after 1948, when Tamil Nadu responded to a plea by Mohandas Gandhi to save Indians-and their pay envelopes -from toddy...
...same political views as his mentor, but who can never hope to emulate Old Daddy's style. Tolbert's mandate will run until elections are held in January. Then he may have to compete with, among other rivals, a 38-year-old Harvard graduate with the potent name of William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman...
MIDDLE EAST Flybys and Superspies Israel celebrated the 23rd birthday of its potent air force last week with flowery words and impressive flybys. The words came from the air force commander, General Mordechai Hod: "We breathe the air of the summit of Mt. Hermon, our wings trace the tranquil waters of Mirfatz Shlomo [Sharm el Sheikh] and the reaches of Sinai, and our jets embrace the skies of Jerusalem, which has become a united whole." Then at Hod's order came phalanxes of Phantoms, Skyhawks, Mirages, Mysteres and Ouragans, of Sikorsky helicopters and Noratlas, Dakota and Stratocruiser transports...