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...time even to go to the toilet. The image of Charlie Chaplin, in Modern Times, leaving a plant and turning and twisting an invisible wrench all the way home is less funny than ever. "Do you know what I do?" asks a striker outside G.M.'s assembly plant at Tarrytown, N.Y. "I fix seven bolts. Seven bolts! Day in and day out, the same seven bolts. What do I think about? Raquel Welch...
...didn't even know it could be smoked," Carrozzi said when North Tarrytown, N.Y., police harvested the offending shoots and planted a drug charge on the 57-year-old Italian immigrant. Indeed, Carrozzi, who speaks little English, did not even know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies...
...York last year state and fed eral engineers announced plans to put a six-lane highway along the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Crotonville. David Sive and Alfred S. Forsyth, New York environmental lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable...
...Michael Demarest, TIME'S Christmas cover was an especially satisfying assignment for those who worked on it. Researcher Clare Mead, before coming to TIME, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican nun. Researcher Margaret Mary Bach, a former chairman of the philosophy department at Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y., was a member in the order of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Writer Mayo Mohs often reported on religion from our Los Angeles bureau before coming to New York in 1966, and contributed to the chapter "Heaven and Hell" in TIME-LIFE'S book Can Christianity Survive...
...Harvard tennis team left for Tarrytown, New York, yesterday afternoon on the start of a two-day, two-contest road trip against Columbia and Princeton. An improving Columbia team will host the racquetmen today and undefeated Princeton will welcome the Crimson tomorrow, for the biggest game of the season...