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...people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...
...next step in the Prime Minister's grand plan-and the platform on which he will fight the election campaign-will be to get what he calls an internal settlement." This means forging a multiracial government that would, he hopes, include at least one relatively moderate black nationalist leader, like Bishop Abel Muzorewa or the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, both of whom are currently inside Rhodesia. By so doing, Smith reasons, he would be conforming to international insistence that his white minority government give way to black majority rule. Smith's goal clearly, is to prevent the "external" Patriotic...
...heat-wave sales promised to snap the nation's air-conditioning industry out of a three-year slump that had been caused by successive summers of exceptionally clement temperatures. The industry's last good year was the scorcher of '73, when perspiring consumers bought a grand total of 5.3 million room-size air-conditioning units and 2.8 million central cooling systems. Then sales plunged, reaching a low of 4.2 million conditioners of all types in 1975. The manufacturers, led by five big firms-Carrier, Trane, Fedders, Lennox and General Electric-have also seen their air-conditioner sales...
Dawn Raid. Last week it appeared that Scientologist methods had aroused a half-sleeping giant: the U.S. Government. Federal prosecutors began parading Scientology officials before a Washington grand jury following a door-busting dawn raid by FBI agents on church offices in Hollywood and the District of Columbia. Cartons of documents were seized, including dossiers on the private lives of federal judges hearing the church's suits, data on agency personnel, and other material that originated in Government files. Authorities charged that the Scientologists had pilfered scores of confidential documents after infiltrating the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service...
Watson has now won two of the four events that make up golf's grand slam, having similarly quelled Nicklaus's victory bid at the Masters. The U.S. Open champion Hubert Green finished a distant third, 11 strokes behind Watson's record low aggregate...