Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale plot fragments saturated in Faust-derived moralizing. The combination is heavy, uneven and often downright tedious, but director Louis Criss breathes some life into the subject matter through experiments, somewhat erratic, in fusion of stage and film action. Though all focus disappears in Zones 1 and 3, largely due to an undisciplined spate of plot elaborations, Criss and his acting troupe salvage Zone 2, "The Occupied Zone," thus granting their audience a few moments of genuine excitement...
...After being convicted of selling marijuana, Los Angeles Butcher Joe Perkins appealed to the court to strike down the California anti-pot law on the grounds, among others, that marijuana belongs in "a zone of mental or sensory privacy" that the state cannot properly invade. With the failure of the court to hear his pot protestations, Perkins will have to serve his five-year-to-life sentence...
Died. Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms...
Midway through the third quarter the Crimson finally scored on a one-yard sneak by quarterback Jim Stoeckl. The play followed a pass interference call against Dartmouth in the end zone. Stoeckl's pass for two points fell incomplete...
...Nasser rashly took Syria's word that Israel was preparing an attack and ordered U.N. peacekeeping forces out of the Gaza Strip. He later admitted that he had not expected Secretary-General U Thant to comply. To his surprise, Thant rushed the U.N. troops out, leaving an obvious danger zone unguarded. In the face of Egyptian mobilization, the Israelis launched a devastating pre-emptive attack on Egypt. Drubbed in the Six-Day War, Nasser resigned, knowing that the Arab masses would plead for him to return. He did, a scant 16 hours after his resignation, promising that the Arabs would...