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...Oregon, a pharmacy board has just completed hearings on whether to recommend exemption of marijuana from the state narcotics law, and will deliver a decision next month. In Rhode Island, testimony pro and con has been heard on the constitutionality of the state marijuana restrictions in the trial of three students for selling pot; a decision is due shortly. New York State is preparing to try Literary Critic Leslie Fiedler and his wife next week for maintaining premises where marijuana was used. In Michigan, a bill designed to make marijuana lawful was introduced at the last session of the legislature...
Colorado (where marijuana sale can constitute a capital offense), Rhode Island, and Oregon, have had similar test cases. A Rhode Island state court is still considering the issue. In the other two states the statutes were upheld...
Political Megatonnage. It was not only the fear of foreign attack that forced the Administration's hand. During the launching of the nation's 92nd nuclear-powered submarine in Groton, Conn., two weeks ago, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, warned ominously, "With all our offensive power, our defense posture could be our Achilles' heel." Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson leaked word that he would hold hearings on the ABM-and Lyndon Johnson was aware that they would pack plenty of political megatonnage. Richard Nixon...
...present, lacking these qualifications, many an incompetent has more opportunity than ever to achieve ruin. Speculation in the prospering U.S. has become not merely an easy but an enviable thing to do. For little money down and years to pay the balance, an Iowa farmer or Rhode Island schoolteacher can acquire without seeing it a small strip of Florida that is bound to quadruple in value-or so the salesmen hint, using a Will Rogers slogan, "Buy land, they're not makin' it any more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience...
...eldest of three sons of a well-to-do Rhode Island family, Owen last fall returned to Stanford, where he smoothly resumed his studies, zestfully plunged into the social whirl and earned a commendable 3.2 grade average. But all the while, he could not forget the challenges of Viet Nam. "There's a world of reality out there," he wrote a friend, "and sometimes it makes this one seem strange...