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...reality, the strike had fizzled out. Despite spot shortages of produce in several areas, the protest did not markedly disrupt commerce. "I don't think anyone missed a loaf of bread, an orange or an apple," said Ed Bacon, president of Louisiana's Motor Transportation Association. Concluded Massachusetts Produce Wholesaler Chris Rodes: "It was a very minor inconvenience." The violence and vandalism that in the end left one person dead and at least 66 others injured dropped sharply last week, and truck traffic levels crept back to normal in most states. By week's end police...
Some of these rockers simply rework traditional, time-tested material. Meat-loaf, for example, garnered high critical honors for his moving rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Neil Young's version of "Silent Night"--complete with a gut-wrenching, distorted guitar solo--also hit the mark, proving that this hard-bitten rocker has a little bit of holiday cheer...
...NOTEBOOK: The "Walker Award" of a loaf of home-baked bread for the team's outstanding performance of the day went to sophomore Mary Rentoumis, who took first in the 100-yard hockstroke...
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
...producing region, within the next few weeks. But for the first time, Iranian mullahs are having difficulty recruiting volunteers to die for their cause. Complains Hojjatoleslam Rouhani, chairman of the defense committee of the Majlis: "Only some valorous and militant youths go to the fronts, and the others loaf around with no sense of responsibility." The mullahs are in the process of enacting draconian legislation against draft dodgers. The new law will demand that all able-bodied men in Iran provide documents proving that they have done their national service or are legally exempt from it. Without such documents, they...