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...reason for the decline is the expectation of abundant harvests, especially in Brazil, which produces one-third of the world's coffee. What sent prices up in the first place was a freak frost in 1975 that damaged more than half of Brazil's coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further...
...gods, the thoughtful, thirtyish ex-Beatles freak may well ask, what is happening to the younger generation? In Tokyo, Chicago and Paris, kids are bumping, grinding, loving, hating, wailing to the loud, raucous, often brutal sounds of punk rock. For a year or so, punk has been flourishing in the seediest rock joints-a Bowery bar called CBGB's in New York, a dingy cavern called the Roxy in London, and The Rat in Boston. There, shock is chic. Musicians and listeners strut around in deliberately torn T shirts and jeans; ideally, the rips should be joined with safety...
...track that deadends, riders have to repeat the entire process backward to return to the loading ramp. Traveling backward is foreign to people in a straightforward world, and there is considerable disorientation in whipping through a loop at high speed in reverse. The most hardened roller-coaster freak can climb out of a giant loop with wobbly knees and churning stomach...
...happy hooker," who favors whatever two or more people can do together. He also publishes long accounts of readers' fantasized sexual successes, which he apparently considers a contribution to mental health: "Some browbeaten bastard in a bed-sitting-room reads it and says, I'm not a freak.' " How much further does Guccione long to go? "I'm no missionary. It isn't really what we want to do. It's what the public wants...
...there is some way the private sector can help solve problems. "That was what he always did as Governor," insists Kirbo. In Carter's musings with people like Pollster Pat Caddell, his commitment to sound dollars often crops up. "We've got this freak inflation," said Caddell last week. "It hurts the poor and the middle class the most, the very people we are trying to help." So Carter has intensified his drive for Government restraint...