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...rooftops shouting "God is great." Enthusiastic civilians almost shot down an Iranian F-4 trying to land at Mehrabad: they thought it was an Iraqi plane. Opposition parties like the left-wing Socialist People's Mujahidin and the Marxist People's Fedayan were captured by the patriotic fever and backed the war effort of President Abolhassan Banisadr's government. Even Reza Pahlavi, 19, the Shah's oldest son, who is studying at the American University in Cairo, volunteered his services from abroad as a fighter pilot...
...Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy, rated X by the film industry itself, got the Catholics' A-4 (O.K. for adults "with reservations") because it was seen as a serious slice-of-life film, homosexuality and all. Another A-4 film, John Travolta's disco epic Saturday Night Fever, was deemed to contain positive moral values, despite dissolute doings in the back seat...
...initial signs include high fever, diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness, followed by a sunburn-like rash with peeling of skin, especially on the hands and feet. There may also be a sharp drop in blood pressure and, in severe cases, fatal shock. The bacterium may be carried into the vagina during insertion of the absorbent pluglike devices. Rely may be doing its job all too well. It may be creating an ideal breeding ground for the staph bacterium...
...house is finished enough to stay fairly snug; it only catches fire twice. Between these moments of excitement, there is bread to be baked, books to be read, a crackling blaze in the fireplace to be contemplated. A dream of the counterculture seems about to come true, until cabin fever strikes. Suddenly, plates full of moose meat are being hurled about, hair is being pulled; Bob punches Elizabeth in the stomach. She writes: "I was free to hate him now, no doubts and no regrets. We could hate each other for having at last released the things we hated most...
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...