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...California last week could have been mistaken for a scene from some late-night end-of-the-world movie. The camera panned across a clear blue sky, then suddenly shifted to a breadline, then to empty shelves in a supermarket, a blacked-out city, and finally to a swarm of buzzing mosquitoes. Throughout these scenes of desolation, a voice intoned: "Everybody is in favor of clean air-but losing your job won't solve the pollution problem. Banning pesticides that protect your home from termites and protect you from epidemic disease such as malaria won't solve...
...Angeles Lakers had just won their first National Basketball Association championship, and the proud, patient giant stood sweating in the chaotic locker room-a Gulliver indulging a swarm of Lilliputian newsmen. "For a long time," he said, "fans of mine had to put up with people saying Wilt couldn't win the big ones. Now maybe they'll have a chance to walk in peace, like...
...English countryside in which Buchan heroes, and their heirs and assigns, foiled pursuit in everything from Bentleys to borrowed bicycles. The true Francis classic (Dead Cert), pitted the jockey hero, up on a splendid horse named Admiral, against the forces of darkness who chivvied him about in a swarm of radio taxis. By contrast, Bonecrack's ride is modest. The trainer, galloping prodigally crosscountry on his best racer, tries to head off the sulky boy-jockey from inadvertent assassination by one of his Mafia father's goons...
COVERING the New Hampshire primary was like watching a scene from Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where the main character was enveloped wherever he went by a swarm of reporters and photographers. This is not to compare an Ed Muskie or a George McGovern to a Marcello Mastroianni but simply to illustrate the overwhelming role the press played in the New Hampshire primary...
...developers of Belgrade Lakes Colony, Me., where he bought two lots in 1968. Since then he has been waiting for running water, tennis courts, swimming pools, beaches and marinas that he says he was promised. Instead, the developers have opened a campsite near by and allowed campers to swarm past LaPorte's house to reach the colony's lake. "I came here for privacy," he complains, "and now I've got campgrounds across the street...