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...closing swimming pools, public beaches, fruit juice and ice cream parlors, and many restaurants. Proprietors of the restaurants that remained open were warned that any violation of food laws could mean immediate imprisonment. To add to the troubles, Syria's agriculture was threatened with disaster as its bumper crops of fruits and vegetables were blackballed by markets from one end of the Arab world to the other...
...Already a dozen local performers have signed recording contracts, and the migration of musicians into Austin continues. It all seems a long way from Luckenbach. Or at least the old Luckenbach. These days the town is a thriving weekend tourist spot, which does brisk business in T shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree down by the creek-if the bride and groom can find their...
...himself a millionaire, and he was one of the first men whom Carter appointed to a Cabinet-level position. Now the director of the Office of Management and Budget-who cruised around Washington during Inaugural week in a black Cadillac bearing special license plates with BERT on the front bumper and LANCE on the back-might be the first man to go. Last week Bert Lance was rapidly becoming an embarrassment to the Administration, a threat to its whole aura of stern moral probity, and the target of an investigation by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency...
That would be lamentable. With their bumper-to-bumper traffic and hordes of visitors toting portable radios, the National Parks may not enable those in search of serenity to get away from it all. But with their sparkling meadows, their crystal waterways and their majestic mountains, they certainly make it possible for one to get away from most of it. ∙Peter Stoler
...across the nation's grain belt last week, farmers were bringing in the third bin-busting wheat crop in a row. Huge plantings of soybeans, corn and other grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere...