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...trained on Iran, Afghanistan and Ronald Reagan, the war song is returning to album-sides and radio stations in a torrent as remarkable for its suddenness as for its size. There's been no similar topical fascination in rock music since the Beatles set off the psychedelic-drug-song craze in 1967. Listen to the titles: "Generals and Majors" (XTC), "World War" (The Cure), "Cold War" (Devo), "Battleground" (Joe Jackson), "Life During Wartime" (Talking Heads). There are songs about war in the Middle East, songs about nuclear war, political songs against war, jingoist songs for war, songs that...
Casey also believes that the stocks of small natural-resource companies are good for short-term speculation. He has a dim view of the current craze for buying such collectibles as artworks or beer cans. But he makes two exceptions: custom-made knives and antique Greek, Roman and medieval coins. Casey happens to collect both of these himself. He inveighs against investing in U.S. real estate, arguing that the market has already peaked. He advises people to rent, rather than buy, housing. One of Casey's most urgent suggestions: get your money out of the U.S. and into...
After the local newspaper published a story about Goiri in July, the cow-magnet craze struck Oregon, Idaho and Washington like gold fever. In ten days, Stocklin Supply near Portland, one of the largest animal health stores in the Northwest, sold 35,000 of the devices. It usually sells 15,000 to 20,000 a year. Goiri now has a patented kit called Magnetic Fuel Savers, which contains two plastic-coated magnets, clamps for fastening them to the fuel line, and directions for the rumble-fingered. Price: $16 to $19.90. Goiri has been contacted by some automotive-parts distributors...
...British are supposed to be above such nonsense. After all, their prime-time soaps (such as The Forsyte Saga, Poldark and Upstairs, Downstairs) are to the American brand what Yardley is to Lifebuoy. But after a slow start, Dallas grew from a guilty secret to a national craze. When the BBC broadcast last season's final episode, normally congested roads were clear and pubs empty as 30 million Britons (more than half of the U.K.'s population) stayed home to watch J.R. get his. On the news program that night, the BBC replayed the shooting as a news...
...such an "endless" chain is illegal in California. Since the supply of investors is finite, someone is bound to get burned, sooner or later. By last week, police had arrested 256 pyramid builders, and the craze was showing signs of fading-onlyto rise again in a less expensive form. The player invests $100, the roster contains 16 names, and the payoff is a modest $800. Enough, perhaps, to pay your lawyer if the police join the game...