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...achieve fame by scaling the world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves and to discombobulate Recordkeeping...
...once a slag heap. Cartoons depicted 10 Downing Street buried in black slag, with Wilson digging out. Libel writs were issued against three other papers; but they had little effect as the news torrent continued. The Labor-leaning Guardian explored the potential conflict-of-interest issue of a Prune Minister's aides speculating in real estate ventures. Television also gave the story big play; one editor whose paper was being sued appeared on a TV panel to discuss the case-an unheard-of practice in the past...
After several days of Machiavellian intrigue and counter-intrigue, Australia's first Labor Party government in 23 years came to an abrupt end last week, less than halfway through its three-year term. Prune Minister Gough Whitlam had Parliament dissolved and called for new elections. Ironically, Whitlam brought on the crisis by a political maneuver intended to consolidate his strength, not to provoke a showdown with the opposition...
...coalition colleague, Country Party Leader Doug Anthony, charged Whitlam with "an act of cynicism unrivaled in the political life of this nation." The independent Melbourne Age editorialized: "It is one thing to have grudging admiration for ratlike cunning. It is another to be pleased about having a pretty tricky Prune Minister...
...BROTHER LOUIE, Stories. Prune of the year: an exercise in torture. Number one for two weeks in August and September. "Makes no difference if you're black or white." Insect-like melody...