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...with hundreds of pavilions, rides, restaurants and hawkers, all competing for the fair-goer's attention, time and cash. The way to get the most for all three is to start with a plan. A few pointers: not all the best shows are at the end of the longest lines, and it can be safely assumed that the line will be half as long inside as out; admission to most pavilions is free, but where it is not, the charge is usually $1 or less; the restaurants are generally expensive...
Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's Marxist Premier, finally gave in-at least for the time being. Last week East Indian members of lagan's agricultural workers' union were going back to work after the longest and bloodiest strike in the little South American colony's turbulent history. Even with the six-month strike officially over, peace is returning slowly...
...five different pipelines parallel one another through the Allegheny Mountains. Pacific Gas & Electric's 36-in., 1,400-mile "Big Yard" carries 600 million cu. ft. of Canadian natural gas daily to 34 California counties and to Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The Big Yard is the largest, longest gas pipeline in the U.S., but it may soon be surpassed by a 1,550-mile line that will carry Texas gas to the Los Angeles plants of California Edison...
...terrible articles about us last year," led the way to a U.S. sweep in both the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Cleveland's Eleanor Montgomery launched herself 5 ft. 71 in. up and over the high-jump bar, thus ending the meet's longest string of personal wins (five straight) by Russia's Taisia Chenchik...
...husky six-footer who hits one of the game's longest balls (he once won a driving contest with measured drives of 347, 352 and 367 yds.), Nichols is known as a "trash player," a scrambler, who sprays his shots like a 20-handicapper, plays best when he is in deepest trouble. Last week he outdid himself. On the first round, he drove into the rough four times - and each time got a birdie, with miraculous recoveries, for a six-under-par 64, the lowest score ever shot in a P.G.A.championship. A second-day 71 was good enough...