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...cocaine worth $5.8 billion, in and around South Florida. So much dope was seized that the police began trucking it to the Florida Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal 1 bbl. of oil, one of the odder statistics to emerge from the region). Yet officials estimate that perhaps as much as ten times the amount seized was smuggled into the region. At the moment, Bade County police have a stash of 162,000 Ibs. of marijuana waiting to be entered as evidence in court cases. The Customs Service has 200 seized cigarette...
That scene last week illustrated one of the odder paradoxes of this strange political year. Heading into the April 22 Pennsylvania primary that he must win to retain even a long-shot chance for the presidency, Teddy Kennedy has reversed the usual candidate's emotional progress. At the start of the race last fall, when most other politicians would have been brimming with enthusiasm and energy, Kennedy went through the motions of campaigning so ineptly that many observers suspected that his heart was not really in the effort. Now, after a series of bruising defeats that might have broken...
That a poor and thinly populated state should suddenly seem a major battleground is one of the odder quirks of this year's political calendar. The number of votes at stake is insignificant: a mere 10,000 to 15,000 Democrats are expected to turn out for town caucuses next Sunday. They will choose delegates to a state convention in May that will determine how to apportion the 22 votes that Maine will eventually cast (out of a total of 3,331) at the Democratic nominating convention in New York in August...
Russia's early photographers were sometimes responsible for distorting reality. Many were foreigners who roamed the gigantic empire seeking ethnographic oddities, the odder the better. Precursors of Soviet socialist realism, these photographers turned real people into "typical specimens" for the fashionable genre pictures of the times. The wandering holy man, the street musician, the Cossack and especially the peasant, in all his scruffy permutations, were persuaded to assume artful poses. One French photographer of the 1880s in Russia was fixated on funny-looking hats, which he set askew on his subjects' heads when it suited his composition...
...flight deck of his ship. The other is best known for promoting fights involving Ali, Foreman and Frazier. Last week Captain Frank Rush, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, got their acts together. They jointly presided over one of the odder events in boxing annals: six professional bouts, all fought off Pensacola, Fla., in a ring planted squarely on the Lexington's 910-ft. flight deck...