Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican has sent questionnaires to bishops' conferences, asking for opinions on how the session should be organized. Unquestionably, one issue that will be raised is the timing and content of a second major statement on birth control, which the Pope also promised last week. Thanks to the Vatican's laggard communications methods, his encyclical Humanae Vitae was released to the press before most of the world's bishops had received their copies. Its teaching, moreover, disturbed a number of national hierarchies, which subsequently modified its harsh condemnation of contraception as an absolute moral evil. The new encyclical...
...normal. In fact, Czechoslovak's President Ludvik Svoboda and Party Chief Alexander Dubcek, along with three other leaders, had flown hurriedly to the Ukrainian city of Kiev for their fourth summit meeting with Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev since the Russian invasion. Only after the session ended last week were Czechoslovaks informed that it had been held. That fact, and the manner in which the meeting was convened, constituted bleak proof that Czechoslovakia remained an uneasy prey to Russia's whims...
...student at Harvard who graduated last summer and is now an intern at San Fran cisco's Mount Zion Hospital. Weil hopes to make a career of research into drugs that influence the mind. With marijuana, he learned?the hard way?about some of the research difficulties involved. Pos session or use of marijuana is illegal, except by hard-to-get federal dispensation. Universities are skittish about sponsoring research that might incur public or congressional criticism, and it took Weil a frustrating year to get the study approved and organized. Then he did it up right: he got his marijuana...
...rolled their own cigarettes of three kinds: one of low-strength marijuana, one of high-strength and a third of male hemp stalks, which gave off the same odor but contained none of the psychoactive ingredient. The subjects smoked two reefers within a few minutes in each three-hour session, which included both psychological and physiological tests. The study was double-blind?neither the testers nor the smokers knew, until afterward, which were the dummies and which the weak and strong reefers. The subjects smoked the different kinds of cigarettes in random order at successive sessions...
...Eyes. The first thing that became clear was that those who had never smoked marijuana before got no reaction in their first session on pot. This tallies with the experience of many unscientific potheads; they achieved no "high" the first time. The only exception to this was a man who had expressed a desire to get high?and did so quickly. He became euphoric and laughed continuously. Yet one subject who had said that he did not intend to get high never did, even in successive sessions that included heavy doses of marijuana...