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...spike-helmeted funeral band and contingents of umbrella-carrying Buddhist priests. Sarit will be remembered as one of the few leaders in Southeast Asia who managed to build a firm, anti-Communist regime; but even as the smoke of his funeral drifted over Bangkok, the press was busy kindling acrid stories about his financial dealings and his personal life...
...county's once-slumbering towns -Mt. Gilead, Cardington and Edison, roughly 40 miles north of Columbus-dusty station wagons from several states competed for parking spaces. Husky, plastic-helmeted men searched for scarce furnished rooms. The night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should it? It has become the smell of wealth, the sweet odor of Ohio's first oil boom since the turn of the century...
Irazú's eruption is "dry," containing no molten lava. But the acrid, ashy smog has caused added suffering among those with respiratory ailments. The fallout extends over 250 square miles, including 97,000 acres of pasture for some of the prize dairy herds of Central America. Grazing land was smothered. Thousands of sick cattle had to be killed, and milk production has dropped to 35% of normal...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies - about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just another dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...
...PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just an other dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...