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Fruitarians and Macrobiotics. Why the new vegetarian trend? It is inexpensive, for one thing. Moreover, the ecoactivists are concerned by the amount of DDT and other chemicals in meat. But there are more spiritual if not downright mystical reasons as well. "When carrion is consumed, people are really greedy," states California's Wheeler. Others maintain that food is the determining factor in "the biological conditions in man that produce wars, brutality and narrow thinking...
...Peronist "protectors of the people," and they number no more than 100 or 200 men each. Last July, former President Pedro Aramburu was killed by a Peronist group calling itself the Monteneros (for "hired guns"). The generals are now talking about outflanking the "Peronists," many of whom are downright bandits, by inviting old Dictator Juan Perón himself to return from Madrid after 15 years in exile...
...point. When Leila and an accomplice attempted to seize an El Al 707 in September, they were stopped cold by gunfire from El Al guards (Leila's companion was killed). Now back in Beirut, where she cuts a modish figure in floppy hats and close-fitting slacks, Leila is downright indignant about the El Al security men. "They had no sense of responsibility," she complained to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week. "Bullets were flying all over the cabin. They were completely ruthless...
WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale plot fragments saturated in Faust-derived moralizing. The combination is heavy, uneven and often downright tedious, but director Louis Criss breathes some life into the subject matter through experiments, somewhat erratic, in fusion of stage and film action. Though all focus disappears in Zones 1 and 3, largely due to an undisciplined spate of plot elaborations, Criss and his acting troupe salvage Zone 2, "The Occupied Zone," thus granting their audience a few moments of genuine excitement...
...broken out all over the room. Some of the contestants argued arrogantly and hotly; others tried to persuade the other side of the truth of some particular belief, or to find some bit of common ground between the Left and the Right. Onlookers were confused, or amused, or downright disdainful of the other side; some moved around from group to group, trying to keep up with all the arguments at once...