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Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia...
...Authorities suspected that several of the young men in the bar might also take part in the smuggling. Officials then and today have no indication that Chip knew anything about the illegal activities of his drinking buddies. Nonetheless, until now, the tale of his possible entanglement in a drug bust has been carefully hushed up, chiefly to save his father from embarrassment...
...Midwest, however, the heat and drought have had a mixed result. Commodity markets have been on a rollercoaster ride of boom and bust this year. Prices went into a tailspin last January, after the President announced the Soviet grain embargo. But reports of the drought began pushing them up again by the end of June. The market has also been helped by the timing of the Soviet decision to resume buying American grain on the last year of a five-year contract. It was announced last week that the Soviets will make an initial purchase of 100,000 metric tons...
...office building boom about to bust? Obviously the industry is cyclical, and the current rapid rate of activity cannot continue indefinitely. The present construction, however, appears so soundly based that the outlook is optimistic. Given a bit of luck, the boom will continue for at least three years, and possibly four or five. Then the industry will need to pause for breath and find new funds...
...chance to consider the issue, and some experts believe only Congress can deal with it properly. U.C.L.A. Law Professor Melville Nimmer suggests patterning the right to share in the proceeds of posthumous exploitation after copyright law, with heirs entitled to royalties for 50 years, after which, for example, a bust of Beethoven would be in the public domain. But so far no one has been sufficiently exercised to propose any legislation on the issue. The constituency is, while notable, notably small...