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There is no way to put a price tag on the damage done to Union Carbide's image in the 38 countries, from Nigeria to New Zealand, where it has factories and the 130 nations in which it sells products. In West Germany, protesters last week spray-painted the words POISONERS and PIGS on the walls of a Union Carbide plant and dropped two gasoline bombs at the site. One exploded, but there were no injuries...
Even the Big Red players get into the act. Last year, as the hosts were introduced, they skated out one by one and skidded to a halt at mid-ice, kicking up a spray of ice at the Crimson. Defenseman Mike Schafer topped off the display by cracking his stick over his helmet and furiously shaking the splinters at the visitors...
...status symbols as a swimming pool and tennis court. During off-hours, Tartikoff enjoys shooting baskets (on his one extravagance, a home court that his wife gave him for Father's Day) and playing third base in a Saturday-morning softball league ("a smart ballplayer and a good spray hitter," appraises one teammate). Moreover, in a business where the top dogs are usually tightlipped, Tartikoff is candid and accessible-qualities that have made him the most publicized network programmer since his legendary mentor, Fred Silverman...
...current bank notes were around for so long they had become an easy target for counterfeiters. The new ones will be tougher to fake. They each have a spray of colors, 15 for the 10,000 yen note alone, and larger watermarks. For the blind, they will bear their value in braille. One problem with the new bills is that vending machines, where the Japanese buy everything from railroad tickets to whisky, will have to be converted to accept the new currency...
This summer's severe insect infestation has also struck North Dakota, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada. Heavy snows, followed by a cool, damp spring, led to what farm experts called "a real good hatch" of grasshoppers. Idaho had requested $10 million in federal funds to spray with Malathion, the chemical used to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. But experts question its use at this late stage. Says South Dakota Entomologist Ben Kantack: "If we spray now, we're just spraying for revenge...