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Bumper Stickers. To whip up enthusiasm for the bills, supporters have packed committee hearings and state house galleries with vocal supporters, many of whom are elderly. In Wichita, Kans., Virginia Wilson held a Laetrile taste-in at her home, featuring fresh fruits, lima beans, beets and carrots, which proponents claim are rich in the substance. She also showed a 45-minute pro-Laetrile film called World Without Cancer. At the Illinois state house, some 300 Laetrile backers passed out blue-and-white bumper stickers that read: LAETRILE WORKS! YOU BET YOUR LIFE. In Massachusetts, supporters delivered to the legislature...
...local jury in Wichita, Kans., convicted Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein of obscenity charges (the ruling was set aside because of prosecution misconduct, but he will be retried March 1). In Memphis, Porn Star Harry Reems is appealing an obscenity-conspiracy conviction last year for his role in the movie Deep Throat...
...probably ten or less, darted into the bar. She composed herself, then marched up calmly to the first table and began in a flat monotone, How many delicious candy bars will you buy made so fine (they melt in your mouth) especially for the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church of Wichita Kansas girls' track team. She droned on for about a minute, looking expectant. She repeated the litany three or four times, but nobody was buying...
...small events of everyday life. The frantic caravans of Ford and Carter, no matter how fast and how far they go, will touch directly only a minuscule number of people. The rest of the voters will watch calmly from their living rooms and dens. The morning coffee groups in Wichita and The Bronx may be the most important political forums in the country right now, says one expert. Listen to the Catholic sermons this Sunday, advises Harris. They could be crucial...
...Neil hardly looks hardy enough to be a fall girl. But lack of size is not the most surprising thing about her: O'Neil has been deaf since infancy. Her mother, a full-blooded Cherokee, taught her to lip read and helped her through public school in Wichita Falls, Texas. Always athletic, O'Neil began studying diving at the age of 15 with Dr. Sammy Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Just when her Olympic prospects looked good, she was stricken with spinal meningitis; doctors said she would be paralyzed for life...