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...U.S.A. Gunther's book is clearly the model for Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom's Bunyanesque effort to package the long-and shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first in frogs' legs...
...houses to car manufacturers to bathroom-fixture makers, receive each year the color forecast cards. Membership annually: $320. According to the current women's apparel color selectors, all of them from fashion and textile firms, stores will be stocked 18 to 24 months from now with clothing in mint green, lemon yellow, orange-red and many shades of blue. Says Art Historian Margaret Walch, associate director of CAUS: "The palette is bright, pretty, feminine...
Store 24: Undoubtedly summer students will spend a mint in this joint as students do during the winter. When you got to have Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies, you got to have them and Store 24 can satiate basic "munchies" with a decent selection of packaged junk food. The 24 does the trick but only barely. A tip: don't eat the meatless meat sandwiches in the window...
Falling in love is, in which case you should head right away to the exotic Cafe Algiers on Brattle St. for mint tea, falafel and Arabian music. Whether you sit outside or in, pretend it's wartime Casablanca. For a more Occidental experience, veer to the understated Cafe Pampiona where you'll want to be seen...
...despite these drawbacks, the scam succeeded. Wilson and Ferguson could not resist the urge familiar to every late-night paper writer. They decimated the package of KitKats as well. (To their credit, the two scoundrels knew their limit; when the inspectors sent down a second decoy package, containing a mint set of U.S. Bicentennial coins and silver dollars, the workers examined it but re-wrapped and sent it on its way intact...