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RECORDS Cut-Rate Classics In the modern supermarket, the hapless shopper is besieged at every turn by labels of BARGAIN BONANZA! slapped on everything from brussels sprouts to lawnmowers-and, of late, records. In the past, the quality-cautious shopper could rightfully assume that those cut-rate LPs racked next to the vegetable bins were, from a musical standpoint, about as choice a bargain as last week's Bibb lettuce. Recently, however, several giants of the recording industry have launched new lines of low-cost (from $1.98 to $3) classical records that are honest-to-goodness bargains. Designed...
...victory, and fled to the security of a steel-doored dressing room. At that, the entire crowd went berserk. In the center of the field, a small knot of beleaguered cops started lobbing tear-gas grenades into the onrushing mob. Trying to restore order in the upper stands, a hapless policeman was seized by his hands and feet, swung back and forth and hurled to his death on the concrete 50 ft. below; another was strangled with his own necktie...
...controlled a large part of the Plain of Jars since last year, decided to fight their way through. Moving behind a mortar barrage, the Pathet Lao swept through the mountain villages of the anti-Communist Meo tribesmen and closed in on the rightist roadblocks, driving before them hundreds of hapless Meo refugees. Meo men and women carry their wealth with them in the form of silver necklaces; as the Pathet Lao shot them down, soldiers would whip out knives and slash free the silver necklaces from the dead and dying Meos...
...outside Wisconsin recognize the significance of the large vote for Governor Wallace in our recent presidential primary. The majority of Wisconsin voters now consider our Governor Reynolds to be a hapless incompetent who should never have been elected in the first place. He has carved out a record so bad that Republican and independent voters would rather cast their ballot for a bigot than a boob. The fact that Reynolds got a large vote-completely out of proportion to his popularity-is to the credit of Wisconsin's voters...
...weeks, a hapless OAS committee had tried to mediate the squabble between Panama and the U.S. But both sides were adamant. Panama refused to resume diplomatic relations until the U.S. promised to renegotiate the 61-year-old canal treaty; the U.S. would not consider renegotiations until relations were restored. Then, early last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State