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...streets, too, have blossomed with a bumper crop of stickers, buttons, posters and one-liners: FOUR MORE YEARS-AND TWO OFF FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR; FREE THE WATERGATE 500; NIXON BUGS ME. Even old 1968 campaign buttons reading "Nixon's the One" have been sported for possible misinterpretation. In California, wags predict that a well-known ice-cream company is about to introduce a new flavor called "impeach-mint." Midwesterners say that "even John Wayne has been implicated-they found hoof-prints outside the Watergate...
...collection of about 50 pages of rambling, diary-like notes describing a long series of real or imagined acts of murder, necrophilia, dismemberment and burial. One section told how the writer handcuffed and blindfolded an unidentified woman and then "executed" her by hanging. "I tied the rope to the bumper of the car so that if I pulled away it would pull out the ladder and she would be hanged immediately. I went back to the car and finished a bottle of wine. About 9 p.m., I started the car and put it in reverse. After 15 minutes, I went...
...founded. Realistically assuming soybean plantings of 54 million acres, a modest yield of 27.3 bu. an acre would produce a bounteous crop; good weather could raise this yield to 30 or more bushels and cut the price of beans by as much as 50%. Wheat is headed for a bumper crop of up to 300 million bushels more than last year. There is a good chance that wheat prices will dip this year-unless the Russians come into the market again and bid prices up. Other produce, including tomatoes, sweet corn and green beans, should also be good, and citrus...
Whatever the reason for their attraction to the show, Star Trek fans, or "Trekies" as they call themselves, are a devoted lot. In between watching Star Trek reruns they keep themselves busy collecting Star Trek magazines, books, bumper stickers, wall posters, pendants, spacecraft models and assorted memorabilia from the show. Most of the items are sold by Roddenberry's firm, Star Trek Enterprises, but the 24 or so Star Trek magazines, or "fanzines," are put out by the fans themselves...
...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...