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...wide-ranging as the human imagination. The luminous metallic material that helps in the docking of spacecraft in darkness may eventually free motorists from the need to fumble for their car locks at night. The need for manageable space foods has given impetus to the improvement of freeze-dried fruit, freeze-dried coffee and food concentrates...
Forbidden Fruit. Psychiatrists and other physicians who favor a different approach consider attempts to enforce prohibition of marijuana to be self-defeating; such efforts, they argue, give the drug the appeal of forbidden fruit. They believe, moreover, that the imposition of penalties for possession, or even use, makes criminals of ordinary young people who are carried away by a simple urge for experimentation. These are moderate reformers, who do not advocate abolition of laws against importation or sale of marijuana, and who offer no defense whatever for LSD or other "hard" drugs...
...buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians were rotting by the roadside because Chinese trucks were not sent for them-as they are not being sent anywhere in Malaysia...
...field, and his dog, at one with the environment. (In contrast, the few long shots of the Marys are always chosen to emphasize the unreality of their lives; for instances, one shot is of Mary standing in the middle of a field by a tree full of obviously plastic fruit). Hopelessly fragmented, the Marys cannot relate to a whole environment--the farmer doesn't hear their calls. Later, a group of cyclists pass between them as if they weren't there...
Table-grape growers are particularly vulnerable to strikes because their product requires continual attention through much of the year. Since the appearance of the fruit affects its value?unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored...