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Present-day attitudes toward marijuana users represent "a great medical cop-cut," Grinspoon concluded. Enough information exists about the drug, he said, for people to realize "that what we're doing now is completely unsatisfactory...
...story line is unambiguous. Essentially, Boy meets Girl, but not before he occupies a Los Angeles university building with a group of black militants, almost (and perhaps in fact) shoots a gas-masked cop to death, steals a private airplane, and buzzes the girl's car off the road in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The two laughingly romp together, teasing and loving each other under the glaring sun in a corner of Death Valley called Zabriskie Piont, which contains (bonus Antonionism) the highest, lowest, and hottest spots in continental America. They are together for no more than three...
...same title, a book which achieved an underground reputation (particularly in Paris) as one of the best of the first existential works of American fiction. It tells the story of a group of down-and-out Depression refugees who participate in a dance marathon, hoping against hope to cop the contest's $1500 prize...
Police Chief Zelma Wyche of sultry, deep-Delta Tallulah, La., looks and acts the archetypal Southern cop. There is the ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
...combat veteran of World War II, Wyche is married to a schoolteacher, and they have two grown children. He was a barber for 40 years, starting his career at the age of ten. But for years he wanted to be a cop; he is an avid Perry Mason fan. He plans to run for reelection, and blacks are filing for other local offices, including mayor. Whites are nervous at the prospect of black domination, but Wyche claims that he wants only a fair chance for blacks. Says he: "We got to prove to white people we can do a whole...