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...wagon trains by which heavily armed Turkish opium farmers moved their wares at night. "I never made a case in the interior when there wasn't shooting," Panella says, "but nobody ever got hit. The confusion is unbelievable. You just close in when the time comes and grab as many farmers...
Striving to increase profit, supermarket managers are also stocking a growing grab bag of nongrocery items from banjos to philodendron plants, and making room in their stores for wine shops, sports-clothes boutiques and even pharmacies. But some food-chain managers fear that if the fierce price-cutting clash continues much longer, the entire industry is headed for a bumpy shake-out period of failures and mergers. Others take a less apocalyptic view, believing that the discount craze will run its course and the old merchandising cycle will start all over. Says Eugene Walsh, president of Ralphs Grocery chain...
...pattern of massive Government programs-even though McGovern himself favors a number of such programs. Dutton argues that just as this wave is developing, Nixon is adopting Democratic Party precepts of the past. "The young are not preordained Democrats," Dutton argues, "but the Republicans are not doing much to grab them. Nixon is saving his own skin at the expense of the future of the Republican Party...
...growing number of serious competitors it is the greatest sport around. Two five-member teams stand on boundaries set 15 yards apart and take turns hurling a Pro Model Frisbee so hard, or on so tricky a trajectory, that no opponent can make a clean one-handed grab. It sounds easy, but catching the acrobatic platter can be as difficult as catching Vida Blue fastballs without a glove. Points are awarded to the throwing team if the receivers muff a catch, and to the receiving team if a throw goes too wide or too high. The first team to score...
...funded by Coca-Cola, is even more ambitious. After a slow start three years ago, it will operate this summer in more than 20 cities, reaching 30,000 youngsters. The idea, says the league's director Ray Benton, is to imitate the spirit of pickup basketball games. "We grab the kids off the street and put them on the court right away, hitting the ball," he says. "We just give them bright-colored shirts, encourage them to yell for each other, and let them go." These programs, says Black Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe, "are tapping a new reservoir...