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...Burp," says the Thanksgiving Day greeting card which, with more truth than tradition in it shows Pilgrims and Indians finishing off their first feast together. "Make this a real Puritan Thanksgiving," says another. "Don't eat your turkey without dressing." With such cards for holidays and for just about any other occasion as well, Cleveland's American Greetings Corp. is the fastest-growing company in the U.S.'s $800 million-a-year greeting-card industry. The trade's five biggest companies-Hallmark, American Greetings, Gibson, Norcross and Rust Craft-have a steady annual increase in sales...
...kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured, they would land about dawn, surprise the British Governor and police chief in their beds, and take possession of the islands...
...church's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime was speeding toward a climax. Day after day, the cardinal heightened his challenge to the government, rallying hordes of the faithful with millennial Masses and pilgrimages, defying steel-helmeted troops armed with tear gas and burp guns. And day after dav, Gomulka's men raised the level of their blasts at Poland's outspoken prelate...
Suddenly two Viet Cong, who had slipped into the village the night before and hidden in a nearby house, burst in on the 40 worshipers. One fired a Czech burp gun, instantly killing the two officiating priests and Tuong's aunt, and hitting Tuong in the shoulder. Unable to draw his pistol, Tuong ran. A second burst cut him down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death...
Smuggling alone deprives the government of nearly $125 million a year in revenues-a figure that represents a quarter of the national budget. The overall crime rate has risen by 50.8% during the last two years, and more than 1,000 crimes were committed by police officers. Lugers and burp guns are freely advertised in the Manila dailies, and political campaigns are not complete without a dozen or more assassinations...