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...standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope-sellers' measure. Many marijuana users are taking no chances. "Head shops" report brisk sales 'of the pocket scales ($1.50 retail) to users who want to weigh in just below the one-ounce limit...
These antique jars and bottles (each with fitted glass stoppers) have been on sale for less than a year, and already over 6,000 people have written for information from all over the world. Some became wedding presents in Bogota, others were acquired for the permanent collections of the Sandwich Glass Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass. Thirty are being set in wood plaques for a Pennsylvania glass firm, while another went to London with Agassiz's great-great-great grandson. Most of them, of course, simply become treasured mementos of the great age of Cambridge glassmaking, and remainders...
...also the only group of stores that features a roving Santa Claus throughout December, who speaks a different language each week. I tracked down one of these fellows a few days ago on Pearl St. with a small crowd and two elves milling around him. The elves were wearing sandwich boards advertising Bargains Unlimited, but Santa Claus ignored them and struck me as a nonaligned, straightforward type. He didn't seem embarrassed about jerking his beard down so that he could be heard (speaking English) more distinctly. A police car turned up to drive him away, and one cop confided...
...House, Rumsfeld, a devoted family man, spends almost all his time with his wife and their children-Valerie, 19, Marcy, 15, and Nicholas, 8. Ever since Mrs. Rumsfeld complained that he was dropping $100 a month in the White House mess, Rumsfeld has been lunching on a brown-bagged sandwich brought from home. He has no substantial personal wealth, and Mrs. Rumsfeld works in a Georgetown dress shop, the Dorcas Hardin shop, to help with family finances. One advantage of the new Cabinet post is that he will get a raise, from $42,500 to $60,000 a year...
Kubacki impatiently slapped down his sandwich. "Look," he said, "I don't see it as a spirited game. It's a war. When you play Columbia or Princeton, you play good hard games and shake hands afterwards. All I want to do at Brown is beat them and leave...