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Most advertisers lure young customers to their products with offers of model racing cars or "surprise" toys. Hunt-Wesson Foods has a different ploy: trees. In the wake of a wave of forest fires that swept the Pacific Northwest, last December the California food-processing company offered to plant a seedling tree in the fire-ravaged forests in the name of anyone who sent in a label or code number from a can of its Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's. More than 200,000 requests were received in ten months, and an equivalent number...
Instead of producing points and victories, Restic's system has left in its wake too many losses and too many dissatisfied players...
...frequently violated the other's airspace. For weeks, Pakistani and Indian forces have been shelling each other over the eastern border. Some relief camps in India have been hit by Pakistani shelling, with resulting casualties among the nearly 10 million refugees who fled East Pakistan in the wake of the Pakistani civil war. Pakistani terrorists have also been slipping behind Indian lines to commit sabotage. For India's part, a brigade-size force, stationed near the border town of Belonia, was reported to have helped Bengali guerrillas drive the Pakistan army out of a 40-mile square area...
Another cut, after describing the dangers facing women hitchhikers, cryptically warns, "Wake up the child, there's wolves in the kitchen," Stewart is no wolf, but the conventional male-oriented situations which he evokes uncritically throughout the album is perhaps an indication that we should be on the lookout for enemies more insidious than wolves. The album thrives on swayback women walking by Stewart's side, faithful "women of the road." Stewart has not transcended the "kick-em-out-of-bed and hit-the-road" version of human independence that perhaps many of us accept, too, at least...
Clean Gene McCarthy is nothing if not unconventional. "It might just be one of those things that people wake up and discover," he said recently of his possible candidacy for President in 1972. And lo, two days later, some 150,000 friends and former supporters received letters outlining practically everything but a date for a formal announcement of candidacy. Not that there is any doubt that he is off and running...