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...Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell Inc. is manufacturing a model Billy Carter Redneck Power Pickup Truck. Billy has appeared at Manhattan's "21" Club to push a peanut liqueur, and a Kentucky brewer is bringing out a new brand called Billy Beer, which the First Brother will hawk on TV. He has forsaken the family's peanut warehouse business, but stands to earn some...
...since the Apollo 17 mission put the last Americans on the moon more than four years ago, NASA has been slowly turning away from one-shot man-in-space spectaculars. Instead, it has been concentrating an increasing amount of research and money on development of the space shuttle, a "pickup truck" of a craft that could be shot into orbit, stop off with men and equipment at a galaxy of space satellites and skylabs, and return to earth safely, making at least 100 round trips before being retired. By successfully completing the kind of landing it will have to make...
...grew up playing with rag balls wound in tape; his prize possession was a Ted Williams bat won for his superior play in local Little Leagues. He even slept with the bat and was brokenhearted when it was stolen after a pickup game. His mother recalls: "He was still, quiet and alone as a child. He was always walking around with a bat and ball in his hand." His two childhood dreams: Go to the U.S. Become a big league baseball player...
...airlines. Delays: average 20 min. Accessibility: the best part. Allow 30 to 40 min. for 13-mile ride downtown by easy-to-get cab ($10). Buses every 30 min. ($2.50). Monorail (92?) takes 15 min. to edge of town. Flow Through: agonizing. Jampacked terminal with baggage carts between pickup turntable and customs inspection. Porters on hand. Moving sidewalks; longest unassisted walk: 100 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: allow an hour. Hotels/Motels: Air Terminal Hotel inside building. Six hotels near by. Amenities: sorry. Two coffee shops, plus five restaurants (one Chinese, two Western, two Japanese). One bar, open...
...getting away with murder. Now that is all too literally true. Across the U.S., a pattern of crime has emerged that is both perplexing and appalling. Many youngsters appear to be robbing and raping, maiming and murdering as casually as they go to a movie or join a pickup baseball game. A new, remorseless, mutant juvenile seems to have been born, and there is no more terrifying figure in America today...