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...reopening of the ancient prison on Yiaros, a bleak Aegean island 75 miles from Athens that has been used as a penal colony since Roman days. The island is legendary for its monstrous rats and vipers and a unique torture: jailers tossing a naked prisoner into a sack with a frightened cat and then dumping them into the chilly waters of the Aegean. Many a Greek has borne the scars produced by that experience. The hundred prisoners now held on the island are a mixed lot of political dissidents, including former Cabinet Ministers. The best known is George Mavros...
Meanwhile, some feed-lot operators have discovered that they can turn a helpful profit from a product that is literally under their noses. Among other feed-lot operators, Ohio Feed Lot Inc. of South Charleston, Ohio, has been selling 50-lb. sacks of fertilizer made from "purified animal byproduct"-a euphemism for manure. At about $2 per sack, says O.F.L. President John Sawyer, selling the manure is "sometimes more profitable than selling beef...
...publicity woman for Sack Theatres, the chain currently showing Blazing Shaddles in Boston, reports that a large segment of each audience expects the movie to be a serious, shoot-'em-up Western. "They're middle-aged audiences, and they come in here with that expectation and just don't laugh," she says. "They're surprised...
...stalls draped with cheap blouses, chino pants, and button-down sweaters. I looked behind me apprehensively, but in a mob such as this, I reasoned, there was no way they could have followed me. Still I was taking no chances, and I weaved in and out among the sack-carrying men, chicken-dragging women, and soccer-playing children, taking care at the same time not to step into the garbage that had collected in the middle of the street. A small alley that went off to the right seemed quiet enough, so I turned into it and was finally able...
...quiet Beverly Hills, Calif., neighborhood, residents have been awakened at dawn as thousands of people gather for an 8 a.m. showing at a theater seating 1,450. Every day 5,000 moviegoers stand in the long queue wrapped around the Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather...