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...part, Stouffer was ready for a merger. Though outwardly in strong shape, with 46 restaurants and six motor inns as well as its food-processing, the company has recently been having trouble keeping earnings up to snuff. As of January 31, six-month earnings were off $140,000 from the same period last year on sales of $43 million. Part of the problem, explains 65-year-old Vernon Stouffer, who parlayed his mother's recipes into millions, is cost control. "Rents and investments have grown tremendously, and higher salaries in other industries make executives difficult to obtain." Litton...
...EPENA, a potent snuff, is produced by the naked Waika Indians of northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits...
...PARICÁ is another snuff, ground and inhaled by the equally primitive Piaroa Indians of southern Venezuela. It has several active ingredients, two containing substances of a type found in brain tissue and another chemically similar to "psychic energizers." So, by centuries-old accident, the Piaroa anticipated modern psychiatrists who only recently discovered that by using several classes of drugs together, they can achieve a synergistic effect-one that is greater than the sum of the separate components. The effects of paricá are little known; no one but the tribal medicine man is allowed...
...Sunday sun had not yet risen last week when 110 lawmen fanned out through New York State to snuff out a conspiracy that in firepower, at least, exceeded Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up Britain's Parliament 361 years ago to the week...
...issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaign-like the conflict itself-has seesawed to and fro. Last week handsome, two-term Republican Governor Mark O. Hatfield, 44, who has expressed grave misgivings about the Administration's conduct of the war, and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan, 45, a snuff-dipping ex-seaman who stands foursquare in favor of the President's policies, were running almost dead even. A check by Pollster John Kraft showed Duncan with 46%, Hatfield 45% , and 9% undecided...