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Most collectors sell and swap in order to complete "sets"-series of cards distributed by one company in a single year. Over 2,000 such sets exist today, including some dating back to the 1880s when Old Judge Tobacco first printed crude photographs of players on cards, which were used as stiffeners in cigarette packages. Since then baseball cards have come with everything from Pepsi-Cola cartons to Burger Chef disposable trays. And, of course, bubble gum. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., which prints 250 million cards a year and pays players $250 plus royalties to pose, makes the largest...
...built a strong $10 billion system of dams, canals, reservoirs and other tributaries. More important, it has pioneered in new agritech-nologies that carefully ration water. Many California farms use irrigation-scheduling programs, which parcel out the least amount of water necessary to produce optimum yields. So-called SWAP technicians, who rely on computers to analyze soil, water, atmosphere and plant conditions weekly or semiweekly, can tell a farmer how much moisture to use for up to 60 days...
...monthly record swap held in the parking lot at the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, an original Beatles 45 r.p.m. single can get you $100 or more. Later this month Chicago's Palmer House hotel will be the site of "Come Together-Beatle Fest '77," a convention to which hordes of Beatles fans will swarm to discuss the meaning...
Auchincloss may strut a bit but he does not moralize. He delivers no indictments against aging millionaries who swap loyalty for beauty, and neither lauds nor ridicules youths who seek truth in the trenches of a war. And Elesina, the dark lady with the soaring ambition who taints all those who come close to her, does not pay for her sins, at least not as dearly as her friends, family and lovers pay for her. At the end of the book Elesina is still stunning, still wealthy, still powerful, and still adored. Even the palm fronds would tremble...
...gulps with unseemly haste, since she harbors a yen for Wally, but insists that Wally's wife Monica (Joanna Gleason) share in the swap frolic. Christmas Eve dinner at Wally's house is the appointed double-bed date. But the catch is that Monica has not been told, and she raises demihell. Gleason, a fumingly sexy comedienne, hurls the dinner plates to the table like Frisbees and shot-puts the turkey. Then, like the perfect suburban hostess, she climbs into bed with the others, where monogamous love conquers...