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Agricrime has become so bad in the state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront...
...Callas snarled publicly about "those lousy Traviatas that he wanted me to do." Bing riposted: "Mme. Callas is constitutionally unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear and made crafty by the desire to save her lover...
These proposals are likely to touch off one of the hottest battles of Carter's first term. At best, Congress will hold a few hearings on them before adjourning, and take them up in earnest next year; they will probably go through many changes on the way to enactment. In effect, it will take at least another year before the reforms can be transformed into law. Touching any provision of the tax code hits a raw nerve-and not always a selfish one. Treating capital gains as ordinary income, for example, would penalize not only the very rich...
...twelve-month rule was the hottest issue at Blackpool. Veteran union leaders who support it were jeered by the militant rank and file; one union chief, National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley, was spat upon and called a "scab" by demonstrators. It was left to the Prime Minister himself, a trades-union member for four decades, to make the most effective case for wage restraint. In a forceful, televised sermonette, Callaghan pointed out that wage increases above 10% would "seriously weaken" the government's chances of containing inflation. "I was brought up to believe that free collective bargaining...
...sites in California where anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing-on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula 1 speedster. Le petit Grand Prix is already one of the hottest pastimes in California, the nation's begetter of vogues, and is spreading east. The two businessmen who laid out the first track in Malibu 29 months ago have since sold their company to Warner Communications Inc. for $4 million...