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...voluntary action and subtle cutbacks fail to stem the expected deficits--something administrators are not anxious to talk about--other steps will be taken. According to Walcott's survey of other schools, several food services--including those at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Rhode Island--plan to end their policies of unlimited second portions, and the Wellesley food manager has asked the school's president for permission to do the same...
Popular Drug. With the A.B.A. behind decriminalization of pot, can the rest of the nation be far behind? Perhaps not. Since 1971 state legislatures across the nation, with the notable exception of Rhode Island, have reduced possession of small amounts of grass from a felony to a misdemeanor. Supporting the trend are prestigious organizations like the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (lawyers, judges, law professors and state officials who draft model legislation). The American Medical Association favors the misdemeanor penalty for possession in "insignificant" amounts, though it advocates more research on the drug. A National Commission...
Civil Action. Patrick exulted after the trial in what he called "a great victory for the nation." Even on the weekend before the verdict, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, he had been busy in Rhode Island trying to deprogram a young woman member of the Children of God. Now, he said, he might go on a speaking tour to pay his lawyer's fees; when he comes back to deprogramming, he may demand a fee on top of the expenses he has hitherto asked. As for the New Testament Fellowship, whose members now escort each other to avoid...
Most of the delegates to the Congress came from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and California, the four states with the heaviest concentration of Portuguese-Americans...
...distracting bat-persons (female) had to take the two hour bus ride back to Providence, thinking maybe next year. Harvard fans will see their coach, Alex Nahigian, again though, as he will be here next Fall to assist Joe Restic. After the grid campaign however he returns to the Rhode Island capital to prepare the Friar baseball squad for another shot at the series...