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...soldiers used to climb for hours in the hot sun to reach the marijuana and opium poppies hidden in the Mexican Sierra Madre. Then they had to hack up the crop with machetes and burn it. Starting in 1975, the U.S. made their work easier by providing blue and white helicopters (Bell 212s and 206s), purchased at a cost of about $21 million; some of the helicopters were used to spray herbicides from a few feet above the ground. Others served as gun ships, hovering above to shoot it out with the peasants who took up arms to defend their...
This year's crop of American rookies is the finest in the league's history. Greg Makowski, 21, is a rugged fullback for the Caribous, and Billy Gazonas is a fleet, slick and tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) playmaker at midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans...
...Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scene: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying crop-duster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant...
...caps emblazoned with the words AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. But the thousands of burly farmers, with strike buttons on their brightly colored windbreakers, were readily recognizable last week as they spilled into the Capitol Building with their wives to watch Congress vote on an emergency one-year farm bill to boost crop prices and increase farm loans. It was the climax of a protest begun in December by the farmers, who were caught in a painful squeeze between falling world prices for their crops and rising costs of production...
Inflation seems immune to all antibodies. Wage-price controls held it down in 1971-72, but as soon as they were eased living costs soared. OPEC oil price gouging and crop failures round the world further lifted prices in 1973-74, but the inflation rate has not returned to "normal" (whatever that might be), even though, OPEC is observing a price freeze and harvests are filling bins. The 1973-75 recession for a while cut the inflation rate in half, from 12% to 6%, at the savage price of almost 9% unemployment in early 1975. But 6% inflation is still...