The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977 Page: 3 of 12
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INTERNATIONAL
BRIEFS...
(ZNS) It was a shoplifter's
dream come true last several
weeks ago when cashiers at
the mammoth supermarket in
Toulouse, France, staged a
wildcat strike for higher pay.
Minutes after the cashiers
walked off their jobs, shoppers
began to push carts packed
with food to their cars
outside—without paying, of
course.
For 15 wild minutes, the
manager appealed to the
shoppers through the store's
public address system,
pleading with them to
abandon their carts and leave
the store empty-handed. The
plea didn't work.
The word spread quickly
through the streets of
Toulouse, and, before the spree
ended, an estimated 1500
shoppers carted off about
$30,000 in merchandise
without paying.
How so many people learned
of the situation so quickly was
initially a mystery, but one
striking cashier explained
"there are some situations that
the French understand very
quickly."
Only six customers left
checks behind.
(ZNS) The British Medical
Association is claiming that
its London headquarters may
possibly be haunted by the
wife of 19th century novelist
Charles Dickens.
The latest edition of the
B.M.A. News Review reports
that a shimmering veiled
figure has been spotted in the
association's library by three
different cleaning women,
none of whom reportedly had
heard rumors of the ghost
before coming to work in the
builflng."*
One housekeeper, described
as a 69-year-old "matter-of-
fact" Cockney woman, first
came in contact with the eerie
figure years ago, when the
apparition materialized at the
top of a spiral staircase on the
library's first floor.
The cleaning woman stated
that since the original
sighting, she became aware of
the spirit's presence often
while waiting to do her early
morning housework.
The B.M.A.'s Tavistock
Square location was originally
the site of Charles Dickens'
house, and the headquarters'
library is now built over the
nearest part to the dwelling in
which the author lived.
It was in this house that
Dickens' unhappy marriage to
his wife Catherine broke up,
leading many to believe the
ghost is none other that his
estranged spouse.
(ZNS) If Jimmy Carter's oft-
quoted mother, Miss Lillian,
seemed to have vanished from
public appearances late in the
campaign, her off-the-cuff
remarks may have been the
reason.
Chatting with reporters
from The Philadelphia
News recently, the 78-year-old
mother of the president-elect
began talking about Jimmy
Carter's barber. Said Miss
Lillian: "He's a... What do you
call it? We used to call it a
fairy, but there's a new word
for it. It's a, it's a. . ."
A reporter interrupted and
suggested, "A gay?"
"That's it," said Miss
Lillian. "He's gay, but he's the
best around."
As an after-thought, Miss
Lillian added, "Now don't you
print any of that or I'll kill you.
His mother doesn't even
know."
(ZNS) A University of
Connecticut psychiatry
professor says that the film
rating system should be
revamped to include special
ratings for shock movies.
Doctor James Bozzuto says
that giving films X ratings for
including explicit sex or
violence ignores the fact that
outright horror and shock may
be the most hazardous threat
of all.
Bozutto says that he has
personally treated four
patients who were driven
deeply neurotic by merely
viewing the movie "The
Exorcist".
(ZNS) If you go to the doctor
from time to time, you're not
alone.
A study by the Health
Insurance Institute has found
that Americans made more
than one billion visits to
various doctors' offices during
1975.
If each patient had to wait
about 20 minutes for the doc,
the combined time spent in then
waiting room totals about*
40,000 years.
(ZNS) A strange reptile that
kills humans with its bad
breath is reportedly terrori-
zing villagers in western
India.
Newspaper reports from
New Delhi, reprinted by The
San Francisco Chronicle,
recount that the unusual
serpent is known as the
"Peevana". At least five
residents of the Pokharan
Desert area west of New Delhi
are reported to have been
killed recently by the 20-inch-
long snake.
According to published
accounts, the reptile attacks
its victims by slithering in the
dark across their chests while
they are asleep in bed. The
snake allegedly doesn't bite
them, but opens its mouth a
breathes directly into the
victims' noses without waking
them.
The Indian newspapers say
that after victims have
received a fatal dose of the
serpent's breath, the Peevana
"sadistically" awakens them
by slapping them with its tail
before slithering off into the
darkness again, leaving the
victims to die slowly.
According to all published
accounts, no "Peevana" has
ever been captured dead or
alive. Large cash rewards for
its capture have been offered
from time to time over the past
several centuries.
D00NESBURT
so anyway,
rick's taking such devo-
a leave of ab- tmblome!
j sence until i is hel00kin6
1 can graduate for a job
o this spring.. nou)? i
you know, it's funny, g/nny, r
didnt think living with some -
one would be that bid a deal
j anymore. but you'd be amazed
i at how maw people are still
weird about it.'
HOU'DTHE WELL, IRAN
JOB HUNTING INTO BRENDA
| 60 TODAY, NICKS ON THE
RICK? STREET TODAY..
; V—- V
1-1-2-
"PEOPLE'?! RICK, HOW COULD
YOU TAKE A JOB AT "PEO-
PLE"? YOU'RE A PUNDIT,
NOT A PUBLICIST!
when's
"people"
want you
to start,
rick?
TOMORROW. ITDLD
BRENDA I'D OMIT
IMMEDIATELY IF SHE'D
AGREED MY LEAVING
IN SIX MONTHS.
hey! you
60/n6 tv sit i can't do
there all it! i can't
i day?) . get myself
to 60 to
WORK'
yes. and with a specta-
cular. lack of success.
seems no one wants to
hire a journalist
short term, especially
a hot-shot analyst.
well, has he tried
^rolling stone" yet?
editors over there
are paid & the
issue.
no600d oh, thavs
he'd have right- they're
to shave moving to
his beard new york.
\ \
icanttell you what a pain it is i
the mailman winks at me, the
landlord leers, and my moth-
er calls me every sunday
to ask me/fi'm st/ll
cheapening myself!
well, now, blondie, i wouldn't
let it get to you, kid. most peo-
ple couldn't care less holu
you live wr life! none of our
fr/ends has even Asked about
it! true story'. ^ i b
m/BlOND/E!
uhfftcha doin
out of bed?!
good 10
HEAR. I..
rrflf- i ~ V- ; * '
RIGHT. SHE ASKED ME
NICKS? THE IF I'D BE INTERESTED
EDITOR AT IN BECOMING A CON-
"PEOPLE" TR18UT/N6 EDITOR FOR
MAGAZINE? THE "CHATTER"SECTION
HA, HA1 THATlS GREAT'
WHAT'DSHE SAY WHEN
YOU TURNED HER
DOWN? /
ISAIR WE AGREED 1
WHffT'DSHE MULDNTHAVETD
SAY WHEN.. COVER MAR/SA
\ 3ERENS0N-.
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JOANIE, I'M NOT ANY
HAPPIER ABOUT IT THAN
YOU ARE. BUT YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT THE JOB
MARKETS LIKE OUT
_ THERE' '
but
"people
oh, rick,
that's so
disappoint-
ing.. \,
well, i agree,
joanie. but until
s0meth/n6 better
comes along..
what HAP- FELL THROU6H.
PENEDTOTHE look, i'm DOING
JOB at the it FOR US!
CAR WASH? \
DON'T WORK): ITS PLEN-
ONLY
TY OF VME TD INSURE
SIX
THAT IUULL NEVER
MONTHS7
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AGAIN BE TAK&J SERI-
OUSLY AS A JOCXNAL'Sr
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OF COURSE, "THAT DOESfCT CONCERS
BRENDA MUCH. SHE SAVS S~i£S
GROOM.'# Vr5 -
LIKE "SPLITS' ~HESECL* .~fs~rC
TO STARS ,.V T-E -
.>1
ARE YOU
THEYHAVE KIDDING? LIZ
THEIR OWN N'DICK ALONE
SECTION? HAVE THEIR OWN
\ SECTION.
PLitib
joanie, do you have any idea
what it's like to wake up in
the morning and suddenly
realize that wre
a a contributing editor
■ ^ for 'people"maga-
zine?
_ "JlffTT
vo
NO.. NO: I
GUESS I
DON'T.
sgsss««
C U TIMES WORSE'
nuan >.
PJtF
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McFarland, Carla. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977, newspaper, January 13, 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245315/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.