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...play tennis and ride a trail bike around the mountains in the company of his 17-year-old daughter Cynthia. An avid photographer, he has been known to interrupt a tennis game to photograph a flower or a plant that has caught his eye. Last week even a weed captivated him. "The sun had caught the weed just right," a friend explained. "He'd been watching for several days to get the proper shot...
...Wailers. You should see these guys so you'll know where Page and Plant copped "D'yer Maker" from. The real stuff, honest Jamaican reggae, which, just like Jamaican weed, pulls no punches. In Jamaica, you write a song, you get maybe 20 bucks. If it dies, okay; but if it sells a million, too bad. But how the music thrives; it is said that Jamaicans believe nothing that doesn't come through the transistor. That is probably true. In fact, do this: take three nights and: see The Wailers, see The Harder They Come, read an article on Rude...
...overwhelming vote of 28,116 to 18,032, the young, liberal voters of that campus town passed the Berkeley Marijuana Initiative, ordering police to give marijuana laws "their lowest priority" and requiring authorization of the Berkeley city council for every "arrest for possession, use or cultivation" of the weed. Appalled police officials quickly pointed out that the initiative conflicts with California state laws and threatened that if the council did not give them a free hand in enforcing those laws, they might have to call in state authorities. But Berkeley citizens evidently felt that the police these days have more...
...gain admission to U.S. medical schools. Others, noting the shortage of physicians in the U.S., see an A.M.A. plot to protect the practices-and incomes-of American-trained physicians. Actually, the test is not insurmountable for most U.S. students trained in good foreign schools; it is primarily designed to weed out students who are unable to speak English or whose medical education is not up to U.S. standards. Many of those who pass go on to gain good positions in the U.S. on hospital staffs or as instructors in medical schools...
Since the city does not have a spring primary to weed out the weaker candidates, the November ballot will be a lengthy one. With no lack of issues and aspiring office-seekers to exploit them, political controversy and confusion will be rampant in Cambridge this summer...