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...even know what the words meant, just coasting through them like Perry Como. And there were rumors that he would make a Hollywood movie produce a Broadway musical. It was like hearing a friend. newly emerged from a siege of electro-therapy, his brain burned into a gray powder, say over and over, "Nice weather we're having...
...behind Reubin Askew, a teetotaling Presbyterian elder whose favorite "hobby," he says, is going to church. Askew accuses Kirk of "government by crisis," inept fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race is considered close, win a third. Democrat Dale Bumpers, a Sunday-school teacher and political neophyte who polished off former six-term Governor Orval Faubus in the primary, is conducting a low-key campaign almost as if he were certain of victory. By contrast, Rockefeller is covering...
...touting their clients' products, more and more advertising men are saying it with percentages. Ads for Polident Powder claim that it gives 45% more false teeth cleanings than a tablet. An ad for Instant Maxwell House Coffee emphasizes that 45% of those tested in a recent survey preferred its taste. Promotions for Anacin tablets note that their Special Fortified Formula contains 100% more of a powerful pain reliever (by which the company means aspirin) than the other leading extra-strength tablet (Excedrin). A study of women's magazines found that the use of percentages in ads has risen...
...times have almost caught up with Gould. A California firm has just marketed the Stun Gun, which shoots a compressed four-inch-square nylon bag filled with either lead powder or birdshot. Fired from modified carbines, pistols or even nightsticks, the bag unfolds like a spinning pancake when it leaves the weapon's muzzle at 110 m.p.h. It will knock down-or at least stun -a fleeing suspect or a rioter. But, claims the manufacturer, the impact is not fatal. A Chicago police official disagrees: "Anything is lethal if it's fired at close enough range...
...largest smuggling operation on record. Acting on American-supplied information, French and Swiss agents arrested two of the ring's three members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into the U.S. by secreting the white powder in washrooms of U.S.-bound jets, in banana crates, in imported autos, and sometimes in sealed cans labeled as fish. Meanwhile, in Lyon, French police arrested two American smugglers and seized the small plane in which they intended to fly drugs to the U.S. In Mexico, police gave President Gustavo...