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HISPANICS. Forty years ago this week, L.A.'s zoot-suit race riots reached a peak of violence: white mobs, dominated by servicemen on leave, made unprovoked forays over the Los Angeles River and into the east side, where they savagely beat any flashy young Mexicans (zoot-suiters) they found. The bigotry is not gone. "They can't hold down jobs," says Rosenfield, the publicist. "They're not educated. They're lazy...
...peak the club boasted a 12-man team who played the game each night. But, according to veteran member Larry Penn '83, the club began to succumb when people took a liking to football...
Arafat's campaign to reassert his dominance over the P.L.O. was prompted by an unprecedented rebellion within the ranks of his Fatah organization, which has been his main power base ever since he helped found it in 1959. The mutiny, which at its peak in mid-May involved only a few hundred of the 10,000 to 15,000 P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, apparently never posed a serious threat to Arafat's leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization...
...straight months, a record number of families have told the Michigan researchers that they thought the time was right to buy a new car. In addition, the survey reports that the number of people who believe that it is a good time to buy a home now matches the peak year of 1977. One reason for their confidence: mortgage rates now average about 13%, down from a peak of 18% in October...
None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...