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...barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...
Died. J. David Stern, 85, former publisher of the Philadelphia Record, the New York Post and the Camden, N.J., Evening Courier and Morning Post; in Palm Beach, Fla. A crusading New Dealer, Stern in 1934 became the first newspaper owner to recognize the infant American Newspaper Guild-a decision that he lived to regret. He called his early support of the union a "grave mistake" after a 1946-47 Guild strike against the Record and the Camden papers. Fed up with labor's unyielding demands, Stern sold his papers, bringing a bitter end to 36 years in publishing...
...extravaganzas called Six Flags in Dallas, St. Louis and Atlanta. Chicagoans were given the opportunity to celebrate Christmas year round at Santa's Village, Houstonites to take flights of fancy at the 100-ride Astroworld, and animal lovers to join Lion Country Safaris in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach...
...Tasaday believe, is based on knowledge that is transmitted by their ancestors. In their dreams, the tribesmen may see the sugoy, their deceased "soul relatives," who live in fine dwellings among the treetops, as well as Salungal, "the owner of the mountains," who tells them where to search for palm pith and game animals...
...toddy tappers of Tamil Nadu triumphed last week after 23 years of temperance. Toddy is a potent and pungent Indian drink fermented from palm sap, traditionally collected by tappers who scamper daily to treetops to retrieve earthenware pots filled with sap tapped from the trees. But toddy tapping became a near-forgotten craft after 1948, when Tamil Nadu responded to a plea by Mohandas Gandhi to save Indians-and their pay envelopes -from toddy...