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...flat knit with the plain round neck, and the sleeveless "shrinks"-short, tight numbers. In the designer departments, the bestsellers have been Anne Klein's high-necked sweater with buttons on the shoulders and Bill Blass's long-sleeved U-neck. "When we get in a new shipment from either one," says a Saks spokesman, "they're almost gone by the end of the day." Other top-ranking New York stores like Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor and Henri Bendel are also having trouble keeping sweaters in stock. An equally impressive testimonial to sweater popularity is the experience...
...puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal and chase "Frog 1" and his friends all around the town, turning New York into Gun City in the process...
...habituated." He roams around Manhattan's West Side scraping up money for fixes and getting into trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some...
...stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...
...Beans. U.S. farmers, who rely increasingly on foreign customers to absorb their rich harvests, have been particularly hard hit. Grain elevators in California and the Northwest have been stuffed to overflowing with wheat and other products awaiting shipment. In Washington, 15 million bushels of wheat have been dumped, creating mountains on the ground, and some California growers will soon be forced to plow their crops under. "It's already too late," says Lee Adler, an official of the California Grain and Feed Growers Association. "Our Japanese customers have turned to Australia and South America. Some of them...