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Public-address systems are used to announce 15-minute "mini-sales" every couple of hours. The stress is on urgency. Says Gary Mintz, who is running the liquidation for Grant in New York: "A customer doesn't come in with a shopping list. He comes in for the value. An out-of-business sale represents the bargain of a lifetime...
...While I was there, wild rumors were circulating through the university to the effect that seven students had been shot by the police. These students were reportedly members of a reactionary Muslim group that went around protesting against the relaxation of Muslim morals, notorious for beating up women in mini-skirts. Usually the police presence is felt rather than observed in Algeria. You forget that Boumidienne has a massive intelligence organization until you realize that people are reluctant to discuss politics in public because they fear police informants...
...Nixon was doing the U.S. a favor. Americans are forgiving and forgetful. Watergate has not faded, but it is hard to maintain a high pitch of anger. A few weeks ago there was a mini-movement to "rehabilitate" Nixon, on the ground that other Presidents had engaged in sleazy activities too-though Watergate with all its ramifications remains unique...
Crude News. Like any good producer, Lear loves the controversy that has surrounded the show. Mini-campaigns have broken out across the country to get it banned or at least limited to a time when the kids are not around. But only in Richmond, Va., where Mary played at 3:30 p.m., was the reaction of worried parents enough to get the show canned. Suburban Seattle Housewife Christine Matkovick has been calling executives of companies whose products are pitched on Mary, at 5 p.m. locally, and at least half a dozen sponsors have pulled out. But with youngsters deserting...
...newsweeklies, the sober New Republic, the monthly Atlantic and all the other news and opinion journals. New Times has often seemed preoccupied with drugs, conspiracies and other counterculture concerns; more recently the magazine has moved part way off those trendy themes. New Times has reported on a mini-civil war between natives and newcomers in Telluride, Colo., on California hospitals that allegedly give kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals, and on a right-wing militia group in San Diego. Much of New Times's most engaging work is by young writers. Among them: Steve Diamond, 29, whose piece...