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Dirt-poor Djibouti is a New Hampshire-sized chunk of harsh, heat-seared desert and mountains populated by roughly 220,000 people, mostly impoverished nomads whose average cash income is less than $50 a year. Djibouti comes to independence, after 115 years of French rule, with only three college graduates, no industry other than a pair of soft-drink plants, no agriculture whatever and an export trade restricted to hides and skins (goats outnumber people by better than 2 to 1). "If it were anywhere else," says an Arab diplomat in Djibouti town (pop. 140,000), "nobody would care about...
...festival to end all festivals. Michael Wadleigh's integration of crowd scene footage into the basic frame work of the gig-by-gig sequence of bands has never been matched by any subsequent film chronicling the events of a music concert, rock or otherwise. Never has a three-hour chunk of celluloid flown by so quickly in recent memory, and I include the Godfather epics in that statement. Joan Baez' rendition of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" usually elicits a few catcalls from the rowdies who always show up for a showing of Woodstock, but the film hasn't another rough...
...final day, Nicklaus was tied for the lead coming into the back nine with playing partner Gary Player and optometrist Gil Morgan. Nicklaus proceeded to out-distance the field for the $50,000 winner's chunk with three birdies and a masterful eagle on the 15th that gave him a four stroke lead...
Fell maintains that Carthaginians were traveling companions of the Celts, and he says one inscription even records the annexation of a large chunk of Massachusetts by the Carthaginian prince Hanno...
...also been buffeted. The growth rate for the first quarter of 1977 has been scaled down half a percentage point, to 5%, because of the bad weather. President Carter's economic package of $31.2 billion, to be spread out over 20 months, has been jeopardized: a large chunk of the tax rebates will be eaten up by an extra $7 billion to $8 billion in fuel bills. On top of this, food costs are soaring as the cold blights Florida fruits and vegetables and farmers have to buy additional livestock feed. Some economists figure that the inflation rate...