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...modern dance classes in the Radcliffe Gym. Last year, the over-crowded, understaffed, ill-equipped gym was the scene of too many chaotic sessions; and so to facilitate teaching and ensure some private attention, the dance students will be charged a nominal $5 fee in hopes that it will weed out the semi-interested from the gung-ho. "We want to have a legitimate dance program," explained Myra Mayman, coordinator of the Office of the Arts--"we're not here to keep people's feet tapping...
Seat racing was the method that had been used to weed out 32 women from the 75 who had competed at the women's National Championships at Princeton in June, and once those 32 had arrived at the Olympic Camp at Harvard, seat racing had been used to trim the number to 11. As the crowds thinned out, the pressure had grown less and less intense; no longer was there a swarm of women to speculate about, to compare yourself to, to try to rank in lists. Now everyone knew more or less where they stood. It only remained...
...penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however, the sale of marijuana remains a crime...
...tier city like San Francisco (pop. 675,000). In addition, Coppola has drawn up a list of "guest editors" he plans to invite to put out entire issues. Among them: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Seiji Ozawa, Rock Singer Sly Stone, Patty Hearst's ex-fiancé Stephen Weed and "an Italian fisherman...
...Make a strenuous effort to weed out the ineligible people receiving welfare; city auditors estimate that they account for 13% of the total...