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...they left the Ugandan airport of Entebbe, the refugees said, they could see rows of their cargo crates still stacked beside the runway. Some of the crates had already been opened, exposed to the weather and carefully plucked over like boxes of fruit. Because they feared searches at roadblocks and airport customs, the refugees carried with them only the barest of personal belongings, often chosen in haste: a tennis racket, tape recorder, kitchen clock or guitar. Sakaria Rajendra, a student, wore 20 elephant-hair bracelets to give to people in England. One family, luckier than most, smuggled out a diamond...
...portable, battery-operated calculators have endless and obvious applications on the job. A Miami fruit grower carries his around to estimate the yields ripening in his apple and orange groves; a Maryland cartographer bought one to compute distance ratios on his maps; a Florida-based jet pilot keeps his in the cockpit to reckon flight times. But the calculators became a sales sizzler only when general consumers, once again proving their fascination with small electronic gadgetry, decided that they would also make handy checkbook balancers, income tax figurers and math-course timesavers. About half a million mini-calculators have been...
...Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped by a "Champion" trophy. "Nobody's finished the whole thing yet," says Bianco. "If anyone really...
...name is grandiose-"transcendental meditation"-but the entry procedure is extraordinarily simple. After just 15 days of abstinence from non-prescription drugs, the novice is ready for initiation. If he goes through the typical ceremony, he takes one clean handkerchief, three pieces of sweet fruit and at least six fresh flowers, symbolic offerings to be laid before a portrait of the Indian guru who once taught the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the International Meditation Society. Alone with his own mentor in an atmosphere made mystical by candlelight, incense and the chanting of Sanskrit phrases, the neophyte is taught...
Cardboard Crackers. Most customers opted for the health-food exhibits. Vittles were, in fact, the show's best attraction. Most were made from organically grown fruit and grains, nurtured without chemical fertilizers, sweetened with honey instead of refined sugar and packaged without preservatives-a feature that may enhance their appeal, though not their shelf life. Plants produce nutrients to aid their own growth, not to benefit the consumer, and there is no reliable evidence that organically grown foods are any more nutritious than those produced by conventional means. Nor did most health-food exhibitors make any wild claims. Admitting...