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More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...
...could also demand political concessions. The U.S. may be roundly denounced for "imperialist arrogance," but Washington may feel no obligation to help countries that consistently and strongly opposed it. As Earl Butz told TIME: "Food is a weapon. It is now one of the principal tools in our negotiating kit...
...arrests that result from them. A passenger whose luggage is X-rayed or opened, and who must either submit to a search of his person or walk through a metal detector, should be as outraged as a passenger dragged off to jail for having a joint in his toilet kit...
...further promote and enrich the fund, Revell Inc. has started to make a series of plastic model kits of endangered animals such as the white rhinoceros and the California condor; each kit contains a leaflet describing the plight of the animal and the fund's efforts to help. Says Christopher Dann, the fund's deputy director: "Besides paying us a royalty, Revell is allowing us to start a dialogue with 800,000 children and to build a constituency for the future...
Died. Katharine Cornell, 81, empress of the American theater; of pneumonia; in Vineyard Haven, Mass. "Kit" Cornell grew up in Buffalo, where her father gave up a medical practice to manage a playhouse. She joined the Washington Square Players in New York in 1917, did stock parts in Buffalo and Detroit, and caught the notice of Guthrie McClintic, a young director. They married in 1921, the year Cornell first played on Broadway, starting one of the theater's most auspicious connubial collaborations. During the 40 years of their marriage, McClintic directed Cornell in almost all of her roles...