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...rest of the measures represent a grab-bag of concerns, large and small. Some are old standbys: fluoridation programs, school bonds, lottery and bingo proposals, and wetter or drier liquor laws. Others are new either in scope or in concept. One example is California's incredibly stiff anti-obscenity proposition (TIME, Oct 23). Among the more interesting...
Lowell and Leverett have both won six games, but Leverett is in second place, having lost a squeaker to Lowell, 20-19, earlier in the season. Lowell faces another stiff test on Thursday when it plays a strong Eliot team...
...Suite No. 2, the second of the two orchestral suites that were drawn from Ravel's complete ballet. While conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta, like the legendary Arturo Toscannini, conducts from memory--without a score. This allows him even more freedom of movement, and he takes advantage of it, yet with a sense of controlled energy. In General Dance...
...House agenda in 1971. But the opposition-both right and left-was just as determined. On the right, Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, filibustered the House bill through the latter part of 1971 and 1972. This summer Long's committee added some stiff work provisions that would have required 1.2 million recipients to accept federally guaranteed, low-paying jobs...
Should the punishment fit the crime? To most penologists, criminologists, judges and even many prosecutors, a far more important concern is whether the sentence fits the offender. Thus, judges throughout the U.S. have leeway to give stiff or light sentences according to the merits of the individual case. After considering the results of broad judicial discretion in New York State, Chief Judge Stanley Fuld of the court of appeals was so dismayed that last week he suggested that it might be necessary to remove the sentencing power from judges altogether and turn it over to "a correction authority or some...