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Over on the other side of New Orleans, hard by the Industrial Canal, is the world's largest supermarket, which covers a couple of city blocks and has a huge sign across its front that says SCHWEGMANN BROS GIANT SUPER MARKETS. The people who run the Superdome probably don't know about the world's largest supermarket--they must assume that if the Chamber of Commerce isn't plugging it, it doesn't exist--but there it is, and no one can think of a supermarket that's any bigger. There are no tour guides there, probably because, unlike...
...interest group has endorsed eight candidates for the nine-member city council, and seven candidates for the school committee. A spokesman for the Cambridge Convention '75 said the group has registered over 2000 new voters since the beginning of the summer, and expects to sign up an additional 4000 by election day. In past elections the margin of victory has been as low as 100 votes and the introduction of so many new voters--if weighed in any one direction--could upset the political balance in Cambridge...
...state law went into effect July 1 permits any citizen over 18 years old to register to vote in Cambridge by declaring Cambridge to be his residence, clearing the way for large numbers of students to sign up before registration closes on October...
...took command of the clan and its hand-to-mouth living arrangements. With a handful of other followers, mostly women, she perched on the steps of the Los Angeles courthouse during the trial, shaved her head to protest his conviction and gouged an X into her forehead as a sign of loyalty. She later explained: "We have Xed ourselves out of this world." Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote in his book Helter Skelter that the mutilations became a ritual for new members, "complete to tasting the blood as it ran down their faces...
Fearing further violence, Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll at 4 a.m. ordered 800 armed National Guardsmen into the Louisville area. Later on Saturday morning police in Louisville arrested 75 sign-carrying people (including the Grand Dragon of Kentucky's Ku Klux Klan) who were assembling in the downtown area despite a ban ordered by Mayor Sloane on parades and demonstrations. Soon after ward, several truckloads of armed Guardsmen were moved into the business district. Declared the National Guard commander: "They will be used when and where needed until order is restored...