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...most comprehensive defense argument comes from the famed 1944 La Guardia Report, written by responsible scientists and sociologists (though heavily attacked by the A.M.A. at the time). The report concluded that marihuana is not addictive, deleterious to mental or physical health, or the cause of psychotic or criminal behavior. Some more recent medical and statistical evidence also suggests that pot smokers are euphoric and generally agreeable under the influence, suffer no hangovers, and are no more likely to turn into drug addicts than are users of whisky or tobacco. On the other hand, marihuana can precipitate a psychosis in unstable...
Like no other mayor since Fiorello La Guardia, Lindsay has displayed a style and vitality that seem to pump adrenaline into the city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard...
Ranging Search. To lead his reorganized administration, Lindsay has enlisted a team of what he calls "great urbanists" as his aides. He has largely ignored the tradition -honored even by Reformer La Guardia -of divvying most of the spoils among local politicos, has ranged the nation in search of talented men. Despite complaints from the press about his free hand, he pays them salaries that go above $30,000, an incentive to talent that few big cities offer. Among those who have answered Lindsay's call: » Mitchell Sviridoff, 47, who made New Haven's antipoverty program famous...
...arrested at La Guardia Airport upon his return from Toronto, Canada, for failing to comply with a law which requires narcotics convicts to register with Customs. He was convicted last spring in Laredo, Texas, of transporting and concealing marijuana...
...store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when the plane was at ground level...