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...thought Animal House was gross? Try mud fights. Cheryl Ladd emerges from one in her upcoming ABC-TV fantasy about a South Dakota girl who succeeds in Hollywood. In it, Ladd and several dancing friends are fooling around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event...
...ferrying army reinforcements to the garrison from Kermanshah, an hour to the south. The fighting took a vicious turn the next day when the army moved tanks to the city center. Kurdish guerrillas dashed from alley to alley. Bullets ricocheted off the brick walls and became embedded in the mud walls of houses. It appeared to be a freelance war, since the rebels themselves are split into four political groups...
Edward Ball, 91, a senior trustee of the multimillion-dollar Alfred I. duPont estate, Jacksonville, Fla. Ball is investing his cash in what he calls "Florida sand and mud." Says he: "Real estate of almost any type is a good buy. There's only so much of it here, and there are more people every month...
...highlight of the second day of the visit was the 137-mile, four-hour train ride from the capital to Alexandria, through Sadat's home district in the heart of the verdant Nile delta. "This is my Georgia," exclaimed the Egyptian leader, pointing to the landscape of thatched-roof mud houses and farmers tilling with ox-drawn wooden plows. The antique diesel locomotive, decorated with flowers and palms, was greeted along the way by the shrill sound of reed instruments and the rhythmic clapping of hands. Dangling from trees and lampposts, clustered on roofs and balconies, and crowding close...
...photographs of Callisto, darkest and outermost of the Galilean moons, showed that this gloomy sphere may be at least half water. Ganymede also seems watery, but appears to have an ice crust and possibly a mud core. Remarkably, both moons are dotted with dark spots that some scientists are tentatively calling ice volcanoes-craters that spew ice instead of fire and lava. Still closer to Jupiter, Europa apparently hides a rocky core beneath its bright icy surface...