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Recently these architectural anarchists have been at work putting up hundreds of houses from Oregon to New Mexico. They are most active in the exurbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where counterculture instincts still bear strange fruit. In Marin County, scores of rebels-cum-saw ignore building codes, hoping that inspectors will ignore them. Attempting to live quietly ever after with their violations, the builders-many of them dropouts from traditional professions-adopt linguistic camouflage. An illegal third story in a tower, for instance, is termed a "storage shelf rather than a bedroom...
...Sinai region. Israeli rear bases were jammed with trucks, tires, earth-moving equipment, ammunition and tank vans. Soldiers were bivouacked along the road, with masses of armored cars, artillery, antiaircraft guns and tanks near by. The Israeli logistics system was obviously working well. The soldiers were eating fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. They even seemed to have enough water vans to provide welcome makeshift showers...
...bustling market house on the docks of Annapolis, Md., radio music wafted over the stacks of fruits and vegetables. "Please release me," the voice wailed. "Let me go. I don't love you any more." A woman at the bakery counter called to a friend in the fruit department: "Oh, they're playing the Governor's song...
...summer of roller coasting up and down, the Wholesale Price Index for September dropped 1.5%, seasonally adjusted-its steepest slide in a quarter-century. Prices of farm goods, the worst culprits in this year's inflationary saga, led the decline, dropping 5.2%. Costs for livestock, corn, vegetables, fruit, live poultry and eggs were all substantially lower...
...think we've wasted enough time on this Watergate thing," insists one matronly woman who is selling fruit and vegetables in a stand by the side of the road. "It's the kind of thing that all politicians...