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...outset, let me declare that I am confident that in many respects the public exaggerates the evils associated with the use of marihuana. Occasional use, considered strictly from a health standpoint, apart from social consequences, has not been demonstrated to be deleterious. One may assume (although this has not been clearly proven) that the physical welfare of an individual is at least as gravely prejudiced by occasional use of alcohol and constant use of cigarette tobacco as by episodic use of marihuana. However, if consideration for the moment be confined only to the physical consequences of marihuana (apart from...
...appointment came as a big surprise to the Harvard community. His longtime associate, A. James Casner, the Law School's Associate Dean, said late Sunday, "It's kind of a shock, but from the standpoint of the country and the legal profession, it's a great appointment." I knew the Dean was going somewhere this weekend, but didn't know this would happen...
...when industry and other professions are availing themselves of modern technological developments as tools to assist them, we have as yet taken little advantage of data processing and have accomplished little by way of determining where these technological developments could help the courts and the bar generally from the standpoint of administration. I do not want to suggest or leave the impression that I think any of these can or ever should be a substitute for the judging process, but I am satisfied that our profession can, if it will but examine its potential, obtain much useful help from data...
Lucky June Brides. No one really knows how high silver will go. Assistant Treasury Secretary Robert Wallace insists that there is little reason for a boom "from a supply and demand standpoint," since Government sales should cover the difference between the 40 million oz. mined and the 160 million oz. that will be used by industry this year. But the bulls, pointing out that Government stocks will be exhausted (except for a strategic reserve) next year though demand will continue to rise, look for silver to go as high as $3 per oz. The bears, eying such untapped supplies...
...floors in the new building will be used for special equipment to make the building, in the words of a Med School official, "one of the most completely equipped laboratory complexes from the standpoint of the treatment of air contaminants...