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...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
...circumstances are somewhat different. First of all. Dancer's Image is a horse, and the Raccoon is a man. And though both were led into their sin through their trainers, the distribution between species makes it clear that there was more chance of premeditated drug-taking by Tarnas. He must have known that was smoking those joints and that this is strictly prohibited in that it gives him an unfair advantage over his red-blooded American opponents...
When I was in Viet Nam, our battalion had a young sergeant who had been first on a battle scene where he discovered half a dozen Americans hanging upside down, tied through the ankles like deer, and castrated. The V.C. had attempted to skin their "war prisoners" like we skin animals. Cuts circled their wrists, ankles and thighs from the futile attempts. Yet I do not recall any uproars about the atrocities...
...this school year; although it is now nearly half over, they still cannot make plans. The financial crisis is not a mere matter of congressional sloth. The complexity of governmental financing is outrunning the ability of Congress to handle it, and the cumbersome procedure of tackling each funding twice-first to authorize the use of money for specific purposes, then to appropriate actual amounts-is straining the legislative machinery. Cries for procedural reform are rising again. With so many problems plaguing Congress-as well as the nation-the need for more efficiency on the Hill is fast becoming critical...
...Chicago Eight, was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt last month by Judge Julius Hoffman. In the past two weeks, with bloody police raids on Panther centers in Chicago and Los Angeles, the war between police and Panthers has come to a climax. For the first time, these events brought cries of sympathy from moderate black leaders who once shied away from any identification with the Panthers...