Tennis tantrum study earns Proxmire Golden Fleece
UPI reports Sen. William Proxmire attacks a $2,500 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to Arlington County to study why tennis players are ill mannered. He calls it a backhanded waste noting the research would survey 300 players and fund public meetings while citing famous players’ on court outbursts as examples.
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William Proxmire
Wisconsin Democrat
Arlington County
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Proxmire
Arlington
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Bob Hewitt
Glaucoma patient smokes legal marijuana study
Robert Randall, a glaucoma sufferer, smokes government-grown marijuana under an exemption to study its effect on eye pressure. He hopes to publish a book and advocates for medical marijuana while warning of bureaucratic hurdles and potential risks for older patients. Randall quit teaching to focus on research and advocacy with NORML.
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Washington
UPI
Robert Randall
Randall
Uncle Sam
Prince George’s County Community College
Avery
Capitol Hill
Joan Baez
NORML
National Organization For the Reform of Marijuana
Robert Peterson
The
National Institute On Drug Abuse
Mississippi
Hearst faces new term in SLA case
Patricia Hearst, 23, faces a possible prison term after pleading no contest to one count of robbery and one of assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a 1974 Mel's Sporting Goods shootout in Inglewood. She remains free on 1.2 million bail pending appeal of related bank robbery conviction.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
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Sporting Good
San Francisco
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Mel’s Sporting Goods
Inglewood
SLA
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