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...sting came to light when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the 1977 Soviet grain harvest would amount to 194 million metric tons-the lowest since 1975. That bland statistic caused tremors of shock through not only the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the Central Intelligence Agency as well. All summer long the Agriculture experts and the CIA operatives who try to keep track of conditions on Soviet farms had forecast a fat 215 million-ton harvest, indicating that Moscow would not need to buy much foreign grain this year. But the bulletin from Brezhnev meant precisely the opposite...
...discovered a problem with pigeons-the flying variety, not the birds at the gambling tables. Across the main street arches a neon sign that proclaims Reno to be THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD. Trouble is, pigeons love the sign, and after they had deposited close to a ton of droppings on it, the methane gas created by the decomposing material was ignited by a short circuit. Poof went the sign...
...marching to the music of 750 massed musicians, the audience, which included military attaches of Western embassies, was treated to the first public display of the Red Army's formidable new T-72 tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra-red and laser range-finding system for accurate fire through...
...three: Medford High in a Bos ton suburb, Marshfield High in Coos Bay, Ore., and West High in Iowa City, Iowa...
...Virginia's hardest-fought political battle in decades, Dalton forces have painted Howell as a wild-eyed, free-spending "McGovern-type liberal," who is "too radical to be our Governor." Dai-ton's campaign literature asserts that, as Governor, "Howling Henry" would howl to a tune composed by George Meany. Dalton also has warned that cops and firemen would be "too busy collective bargaining" to chase criminals and put out fires. At one rally, Dalton waved a garden hose at the crowd to dramatize the supposed dangers of a firemen's strike...