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...good buddies" have CB rigs in their cars or homes. Yet despite the boom in the industry, a lot of firms that tried to capitalize on the craze are going bust. A case in point: Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the largest U.S. makers of ham radio and CB gear. Burdened by $31 million in debts and a $24 million earnings loss in fiscal '77, Hy-Gain has filed for bankruptcy and told 1,000 employees at its plants in Lincoln and Puerto Rico to go home...
...trust territory's population, but receive 32% of the territorial income. The Marianas also eagerly accept all kinds of federal aid, including free medical care and bulk food grants of commodities like wheat. "It's sort of a welfare state," says silvery Erwin Can-ham, the Marianas' resident commissioner and a former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will return to the U.S. later this month. "If I tried to eliminate the free surplus commodities, I'd have a lynch mob down here...
...Seattle, Truffles sells (besides fresh truffles at $12.81 per oz.) 60 different marmalades, 32 pastas, honey from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports such esoterica as Maine cacklebird, Indian quail and Finnish grouse?and recently filled a client's request for 48 Ibs. of African elephant meat (which was cut into steaks and broiled...
...audience or recite witty lines. Scenic and vocal delights pale when the direction is drab and comic potential ignored. Although the company's voices are strong and clear, they may as well be disembodied. The staging is sometimes pedestrian, and there is a peculiar reluctance to ham up the show...
...State Department, and Joseph Duffey, then Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, took the matter up with Vice President Walter Mondale. At least one indignant official accused FBI hard-liners of deliberately trying to sabotage detente. Much more likely, FBI bureaucrats were stubbornly, and ham-handedly, doing what they considered to be their...