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Timeline: 1972-1976

November 20, 1974: HMS professor emeritus Dana K. Farnworth suggests drug law reform so that possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is no longer a criminal offense.

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December 2, 1974: Derrick A. Rall Jr., the only black professor at Harvard Law School, threatens to resign if HLS does not substantially increase efforts to hire minority faculty.

January 15, 1975: Ford’s State of the Union Address proposes tax cuts, higher fuel costs and ways to alleviate recession.

February 6, 1975: After 10 years of conflict, the Kennedy Library Corporation decides not to build the museum portion of the complex on the Cambridge site.

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