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...Franciscans dial POPCORN to get the correct time, and LOST DOG for the S.P.C.A. reports. In Berkeley, THE MOST reaches Giovanni's Pizza Parlor, and in Chicago, CARPETS connects a caller with the Walton Carpet Co. To reach the Houston Post's classified department, patrons are advised to dial WANT ADS. In Dade County, Fla., the telephone name of a mortgage company is FREEDOM. A Pontiac auto dealer in Los Angeles is available at GO GO FUN, the Suicide Prevention Office at HELP NOW; and most startling of all, for a recorded sermon from Hollywood's First...
...ugly war. White sand beaches stretch far at Cam Ranh. Off-duty Americans surf on the gentle swells and snorkle into secluded coves to watch brilliantly colored fish and huge lobsters. There are lighted tennis courts, and at the nurses' Saturday-night dances, the boogaloo and the popcorn are popular. As President Nixon began to disengage U.S. troops from Viet Nam, Cam Ranh acquired new importance as a possible exit or rear-guard enclave for departing American forces...
...paintings and bronzes-of stampeding steers, dust-churning ponies and lean-featured frontiersmen -have the same quality of rough-chiseled permanence that epitomizes another kind of artist, John Wayne, our cover subject this week. As Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the story, puts it: "The usherettes and the popcorn machines may have gone, but John Wayne remains. He has endured in an industry notorious for its instability...
...from swing to bop to the cooler, lighter sound of the '50s. He also became something of a father figure to young players, whom he entertained in his Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, talking music or baseball and cooking for them (he loved all kinds of beans-and popcorn). Almost always in the background there was the sound of classical music; Hawk loved Bach and Beethoven as much as a strong jazz solo...
...minor industry has developed to cater to the millions of people who want to stop smoking cigarettes. Ban-tron, Nikoban and other aids for quitters enjoy brisk sales. "Withdrawal clinics" have sprung up in several cities; they urge people to munch popcorn instead of smoking, emphasize the positive effects of quitting. Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward are among the recent graduates of Sunset Boulevard's "Smoking Control Center," one of several $125 per course habit-breaking outfits that have opened lately in Los Angeles. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley recently mailed circulars urging 36,000 city...