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Only the signs and billboards along Interstate 90 break the monotony. They beckon to motorists heading west toward Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone or east toward Sioux Falls and the industrial Midwest. The pitch is tantalizing: BE A WALL FLOWER. HAVE YOU DUG WALL DRUG? WALL-EYED AT WALL DRUG...
...with the 80-ft. dinosaur next to the Highway) thread through station wagons and campers jamming Main Street. Once inside Wall Drug, road-weary visitors are faced with a bewildering pastiche of class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys...
...ferment has stirred the spirit of the city's neighborhoods, 100 of which now mount their own festivals. In addition, 16 ethnic groups in the city, ranging from Estonians to Italians, hold festivals each year in Charles Center or the Inner Harbor...
Cathy Richardson Mount Pleasant...
During much of the walkout, some teams, notably the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves, did better financially -thanks to reduced costs and strike insurance-than they would have under normal circumstances. But as the time dragged on and losses began to mount, a number of "moderate" owners, including the Baltimore Orioles' Edward Bennett Williams, the Yankees' George Steinbrenner and Eddie Chiles of the Texas Rangers, pressed Grebey to reach a settlement. The agreement, which must be ratified by both owners and players this week, extends through 1984. Says Williams: "We now have three years of labor peace...