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...Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, January is harvest time. It is also a time when members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration check the skies for signs of bad weather, hoping that nature will spoil the lucrative crop of opium poppies that are the economic mainstay of the mountainous region where the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. This year the climate has been kind to the poppy growers and bad for the DEA: a bumper crop of 700 tons is expected, 100 tons more than last year. But the U.S. narcs are not very worried. The reason...
...liked Airplane, here's your chance to get more of the same. If you didn't deign to attend a film so sophomoric, so silly, drop the pretensions and try this one; you may be pleasantly surprised. The movie's mainstay is its rapid-fire humor, and, even if only half the jokes hit theme, the film contains enough solid gags to have you laughing throughout the hour and a half show...
...seasoned TIME interviewer of celebrities as diverse as Meryl Streep, Bette Midler and Robert Redford, Dutka remarked on the visible solidity of the Newmans' relationship. Says she: "Humor is evidently its mainstay. Her dry, self-deprecating wit complements his broader, almost raunchy jokes. There's an obvious bond of respect and affection between them...
...Harvard football team yesterday announced the election of junior linebacker Joe Azelby, for two years a mainstay on the best defense in the Ivy League, as its 110th captain...
Elsewhere in the South Seas of the '30s, TV viewers will come upon Jake Cutter, mainstay of the Tales of the Gold Monkey (ABC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), who is not as burly as Buck, and is subject to occasional bouts of malaria besides. A hard-times flyboy with a beat-up leather jacket and a Terry and the Pirates cap, Cutter finds himself enmeshed, often to his considerable chagrin, in a variety of exotic adventures having to do with lost treasures and old legends. Cutter, attractively played by Stephen Collins, darts around in a wreck of a seaplane...