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Well, there is one now, and it is shooting in the palaces, jungles and lakes of Udaipur in northwestern India. Roger Moore is darting through a busy bazaar, over and around peanut vendors, bicycles, carts, dogs and cows to escape his nemesis, the decadent Kamal, played by Louis Jourdan. Moore is, of course, impeccably dressed. "It adds the bizarre to the bazaar," he notes, with an insouciant cock of the left eyebrow. "Who wouldn't gawk at an Englishman in a dinner jacket running down a street here with a six-bladed dagger sticking out of his chest?" Does...
Professor of Government Sidney Verta served " little Almond Joys, Kit Kats, and chocolate-covered wafers;" John Kenneth Galbraith Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, offered lollipops; Dean of Freshman Henry Moses provided Suo-Caps and Nestle. Crunch Bars: and Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould distributed Reese's peanut-butter caps...
...fashioned constituent service. "People know they can call me and get results," he says. Lujan has assigned seven of his 13 congressional staff members to chase down tardy Social Security checks and disentangle Government red tape. On the campaign trail, fueled by a breakfast of graham crackers and peanut butter, Lujan totes a briefcase crammed with "casework forms," on which he records complaints from constituents. He couples such efforts with well-aimed personal touches: birthday cards, sympathy notes and welcoming letters to district newcomers...
...outsider." I was not part of the Wall Street business Establishment, the Washington political Establishment or the Hollywood entertainment Establishment. I was just not part of the Establishment in any way. I was a Southern peanut farmer populist type. That was fine with...
...serious trouble. In the first ten months of the current fiscal year, there were nearly 7,000 farm failures. Even many secure and usually prosperous farmers are feeling the pinch. "You've heard farmers bitching all your life," says Chappel Sides, 53, a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer near Coffeeville, Miss. "But when an above-average farmer makes an above-average crop and loses a pile of money, you know something's wrong. We're just right on the verge of a sure-enough tragedy...