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Saturday, January 7 SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Sarazen and Jimmy Demaret host a new series of matches between various pros on the world's most famous courses. This week it's Tommy Jacobs v. Bruce Devlin at the Golf Club of Rome...
Lyndon Johnson will certainly find it far more difficult to extract cooperation and cash from the 90th Congress, which convenes next week, than from the compliant, free-spending 89th. The three-seat Democratic loss in the Senate (the new lineup: 64 v. 36) will result mainly in strengthening the Republicans' moderate-liberal wing. The G.O.P. gain of 47 House seats in the November election, which cuts the Democratic advantage to 248 v. 187, gives the Republicans their strongest House delegation since 1957-58 and nudges the House back toward its traditional role of skeptic. A recent survey by Congressional...
...generation's life experience. Insiders say that no fewer than 50% of Los Angeles high school students have tried marijuana at least once, and that 25% use it regularly once or twice a week. At Berkeley, marijuana has given way to acid, which costs $2.50 per trip v. $2 for a milder marijuana kick. In fact, though, the great majority of Now People shun the traditional opium derivatives-heroin and morphine-because they represent a passive withdrawal from experience. They want their "now" heightened and more meaningful...
Buganda's King "Freddy" Mutesa, 42, lost his palace-and nearly his life-last May. Burundi booted out its boy ruler, Ntare V, last month. Last week monarchic malaise infected Africa's newest nation, three-month-old Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), a country of 900,000 that is completely surrounded by South Africa...
...v. Freeman) ordering federal judges in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to use the American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...