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UK plan includes closing section f se St

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

A proposed plan guiding future
physical development of the carn-
pus — which includes closing a sec-
tion of Rose Street —- was given ini-
tial approval by the UK Board of
Trustees yesterday.

The plan provides for expanding
both the Lexington Campus and the
Medical Center, while redirecting
traffic and rearranging parking.

UK President Charles Wethington
said the plan now will be presented
to various University groups for dis-
cussion and revision. He said the
plan would be brought back to the
trustees this summer for final ap-
proval.

The plan includes closing Rose
Street between Columbia Avenue
and Washington Avenue to allow
for expansion of the academic core

Media expert
to scrutinize
war coverage

Staff reports

An expert on media biases will
address the issue of media coverage
of the Persian Gulf War tonight.

Jeff Cohen, founder and execu-
tive director of Fairness and Accu-
racy in Reporting (FAIR), will
present “The Media on the March,"
at 8 in 230 Student Center.

Cohen began the New York-
based watchdog
group five years
ago to examine
media bias. Be-
fore starting
FAIR, the for-
mer anomey for
the American
Civil Liberties
Union was in-
volved in a num-
ber of consu-
mer-activist
groups in Califor-
nia.

“Our concern has always been
challenging the substance of news
and public affairs programming on
television," Cohen said.

This concern has led to criticism
of the growing corporate influence
on media, the guest selection on net-
work news broadcasts and, most re-
cently, media coverage of the war.

“It‘s important to discuss the me-
dia in the United States,“ he said.
“We're probably the most media-
dominated culture in the history of
the world."

Cohen examines not only the fair-
ness of the media‘s coverage, but
also its impact on our perceptions of
global politics.

The event is sponsored by the
Contemporary Affairs Committee
of UK's Student Activities Board.

COHEN

UK TODAY

News: Peer Educators
will give a safe Spring
Break seminar to the
Tri-Delts and Kappa AI-
pha Order at the Tri-
Delt house at 6:30 pm.
Sports: UK baseball
team home opener,
Shively Field; call
7-3838 for time.

 

 

James Lee

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ter UK bas-
ketbail.

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east toward Woodland Avenue.

It also provides at least two roads
to redirect traffic around campus.

Among the goals of the plan are
to providing strategy to meet space
needs; to increase pedestrian safety;
to redirect parking; to further devel-
op campus identity and maintain
and enhance open spaces.

It was the first comprehensive
land plan before the trustees in al-
most 30 years.

“The timing of the 1965 plan was
ill-fated,” said Warren Denny, di-
rector for design and constniction.
“It was developed at a time when
urban renewal was in vogue on
many college campuses and funding
was at its peak. When resources
dwindled, the plan could not be car—
ried out”

The new plan divides the campus
into the academic core, the Medical
Center and the College of Agricul-

ture.

“Each of these units are compet-
ing for the same ever-decreasing re-
source, sites for new buildings,"
Denny said.

Academic core

Currently, the academic core is
defined as the older areas of cam-
pus, surrounded by Euclid Avenue
and Rose. Limestone and Washing—
ton streets.

By closing a section of Rose
Street. UK would connect the older
area of campus with the proposed
location for the new library, near
Clifton Circle.

Medical Center

The current Medical Center occu-
pies land on both sides of Rose
Street. The plan allows for the Med-
ical Center to expand across Lime-
stone to the west Bridges over

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By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

A reorganization of UK's cen-
tral administration, and the ap-
pointment of a chancellor and two
vice presidents, was approved by
the Board of Trustees yesterday.

UK President Charles Wething-
ton sought the reorganization as
pan of his review of the Universi-
ty’s administration setup.

He said the reorganization was
needed to put “the most effective
administrative organi7ation in
place."

-Bcn Carr was appointed chan-

 

Administration reorganized

cellor to oversee UK's 14 com-
munity colleges. He had been the
acting chancellor for the Commu-
nity College System since Weth-
ington was named interim presi-
dent.

-Ed Carter, formerly the vice
president for administration, was
made the vice president for man-
agement and budget. He will
oversee financial and capital plan-
ning and budget management and
development

-Joscph Burch, formerly special
assistant to the president for Uni-
versity Relations, was named vice
president for University Rela-

tions. His job description remains
virtually the same, with the addi-
tion of oversight of the University
Police, parking and transporta—
tion.

-Wethington created a new po-
sition of vice president for admin-
istration, which will be the chief
financial officer of the University
and the second in command. The
vice president also will oversee
many Universitywide functions,
which formerly were under the ju—
risdiction of Jack Blanton, Lex-
ington Campus vice chancellor

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A A

By AL HILL
Senior Staff Writer

tachcd to its high-top sneakers
kicked off its shoes and celebrated
in high style yesterday.

The UK basketball team, which
compiled 22-6 overall record and
the Southeastem Conference's best
record (144) but was prohibited
from winning the league title or
participating in the NCAA Touma-
ment, was crowned like a champi-
on.

 

A team with lead weights at-

a tan while sitting atop a fire truck during the team‘s parade around downt

Wildcat team gets treated like champions

Thousands of Wildcat fans gath-
ered for an old-fashioned parade,
complete with fire engines, march-
ing bands, cheerleaders and, of
course, the Wildcats, coach Rick
Pitino and his staff of assistants.

It began yesterday at about 3
pm. when UK fans from all over
began to congregate in front of
Memorial Coliseum, celebrating
the achievements of a team facing
no postseason.

It began with the powerful beat
of Rupp Arena’s starting-lineup
theme, followed by the school's

fight song, Blendinty with the mu-
sic wcrc the cheers of about 1.500
of America‘s best basketball fans.

The SEC Champs loaded into
five fire department—issue trucks,
fully stocked with water hoses and
ladders -— and the nation’s 10th—
ranked team.

Led by UK’s marching band,
the convoy of blue moved east
down the Avenue of Champions.

Following the band was the UK
cheerleading squad. assistant
coach “Tubby" Smith, assistants
Billy Donovan. Bernadette Locke,

 

Ray “Rock" Oliver and the team,

Juniors Dcron Fcldhaiis and All-
SEC first-team player John Pcl~
phrey stood tall as the third wagon
rolled on through the streets of
downtown Lexington. Sophomore
guard Jeff Brassow and Jamal
Mashbum occupied the fourth
truck.

Bringing up the rear were Pitino,
senior center Reggie Hanson, stan-
ing guard and junior Sean Woods
and sophomore forward Henry
Thomas, the “Blade."

Along the way, the team was

 

 

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Iraq releases prisoners, struggles with infighting

By CHARLES J. HANLEY
Associated Press

With rapid-fire prisoner releases
and proclamations, Iraq struggled to
clear away the fallout of its Gulf
War defeat yesterday. But an anti-
Saddam uprising was reported
sweeping city after city, in what a
dissident promised would be “a
long, violent battle.”

The Iraqis turned over 35 prison-
ers of war, including 15 Americans,
to the Red Cross in Baghdad, and
said they were the last allied cap~
tives. .

Bad weather delayed a transfer of
the ex-POWs out of Iraq in ex-
change for Iraqi prisoners.

The Iraqis also formally annulled
their “annexation" of Kuwait and
pledged to return looted Kuwaiti

property — necessary steps for
meeting United Nations peace de-
mands.

But Baghdad had no peace. The
Kmdish opposition claimed it
seized a major city in the nonh, just
days after violent protests against
President Saddam Hussein began
spreading through Iraq's southern
cities.

American military sources said
Iraqi army units were choosing
sides in bloody local Showdowns.

Officials and news organizations
reported. meanwhile, that 28 West-
em journalists have disappeared
while traveling in southern Iraq to
report on the civil unrest. Four are
newsmen from US. organizations
— Neal Conan of National Public
Radio, Chris Hedges of The New
York Times, and CNN’s Greg La-

motte and Tyrone Edwards.

Six days after President Bush de-
clared victory and a cease-fire in the
war to rid Kuwait of Iraqi occupa-
tion, Pentagon sources said a first
wave of returning U.S. troops would
arrive at Andrews Air Force Base
outside Washington on Thursday.

The 4,400 soldiers, including
members of the 82nd Airborne Divi-
sion, might be personally welcomed
home by President Bush. the sources
said, although a White House
spokesman said he was unaware of
such a plan,

On Monday. the Ira is moved
quickly to meet the allies demands
for immediate prisoner releases,
freeing six Americans and four other
captives as an initial gesture.

Yesterday, they freed a second
group — I5 Americans, nine Brit-

ons, nine Saudis, one Kuwaiti and
one Italian.

“Iraq has completed the handing
over of all prisoners,“ an Iraqi For-
eign Ministry spokesman was quot-
ed as saying by Baghdad Radio.

That meant 29 military people ——
28 Americans and one Saudi —- re-
mained unaccounted for in the
war’s aftermath. The Pentagon yes-
terday also updated the U.S. casual-
ty toll in the 43-day war to 115 dead
and 330 wounded. Tens of thou-
sands of Iraqis were believed killed.

One captive freed yesterday was
U.S. Army Maj. Rhonda L. Comum
of Freeville, N.Y.. the second
American woman prisoner released.
On Monday, the Iraqis freed a fe-
male Arrny specialist, Melissa Rath-
bun-Nealy of Grand Rapids. Mich.

Rathbun-Nealy and the other

INSIDE: BIG BUCKS WASTED IN VENDING MACHINES

Americans released Monday went
by road from Baghdad to Jordan and
then were flown to Bahrain and the
U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy.
where Air Force Col. Wynn Mabry.
a medical team chief. later told rc-
poncrs, “I‘m pleased to report that
they are all in good shape and in
good spirits.“

The prisoners freed yesterday
were to have boarded a Red Cross
plane for Saudi Arabia, after it flew
in 294 Iraqi POWs in an exchange.

But the flight from Saudi Arabia
was scrubbed because of poor Visi-
bility there and high wmds in Bagh-
dad, U.S. military officials said.
Weather perrmtting. the swap WIII
take place today, they said.

The U.S.-led alliance holds at

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 Pitino not moved by SEC coaches’ accolades

By BOB NORMAN
Sports Editor

The outpouring of regret from
Southeastem Conference basketball
coaches that UK, the top-ranked
team in the SEC, won't play in the
tournament seemed pretty good of
them at the time.

UK coach Rick Pitino, however,
said at a news conference yesterday
moming that he doesn’t take much
stock in the coaches' sentiments. He
says they weren't around when he
needed them the most.

“It was nice of them to say that at
this point," he said with a chuckle.
But he also added with a bit of re-
sentment that the majority of the
coaches voted against allowing UK
in the SEC tournament during the
Destin, Fla. SFC coaches meeting
last summer.

Asked which coaches
against UK, Pitino said,
privileged information."

It seems, however, that as March
Madness approaches, some of those
coaches are havrng second thoughts
about that summertime decision.

The Wildcats, who had the best
record in the SEC (14-4) and
snagged 22 victories on the season
against six losses, are sitting
through the end of a two-year proba»
tion period, which left them ineligi-
ble for postseason play.

voted
“That‘s

Georgia coach Hugh Durham said
Kentucky's absence is going to have
a significant impact on the tourna-
ment.

“Kentucky has as loyal a follow-
ing as any in the country,” he said.

It's a void, a void that I’m
glad will be filled next year.”

“I think it detracts immensely,”
Louisiana State coach Dale Brown
said.

“I think they‘ve been the beacon
of light for all of us. They have
made it a basketball league.

“Without Kentucky being in this
league, I think this would have been
a bush league like it used to be.
Kentucky made us lift up to their
standards."

UK All-SEC freshman Jamal
Mashbum will undergo surgery
soon to make sure he doesn't lose
the playing standards he has has
maintained.

The impact freshman will have a
hernia operation to guard him
against an injury that could knock
him out of crucial games next sea-
son.

Pitino said Mashbum's hernia
“pops out" every so often, and a bad
one could lead to missed playing
time.

Mash could be out of commission
for six months after the operation
but should be back 100 percent for

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JOHN PELPHREY' KENTUCKY
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preseason practices.

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rial Coliseum pcp rally predicted a
Final Four finish next season, said
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kind of competition that raises inten-
sity levels and produces top-notch
players.

An especially competitive spot
will be the one- and two-guard posi-
tions.

With the gained eligibility of Mis-
souri transfer Travis Ford and the
emergence of juco transfer Dale
Brown, some heated competition
should be generated.

He said that while the two-year
starter at point guard “obviously has
a leg up on everyone,” he expects
Brown to be an impact player.

If anybody wants to beat out
Sean Woods, then go ahead and do
it," Pitino said.

Pitino talked frankly yesterday
about the doubts he once had in Ri-
chie Farmer’s basketball ability.

“When I first got here I didn‘t
think he could play at this level,”
Pitino said. I don’t think he had
the desire to play.

“ .. Richie Farmer wanted to quit
the team (during the preseason). He
was in the basement of my house in
near tears."

But Pitino was quick to point out
that any doubts he once had in the
junior guard have vanished since
Farmer’s emergence as an impact
player this past season.

“Why do you think he got most
improved player," Pitino said of the
award Farmer won.

Wildcats can talk about future

And then it was over.

With the sound of the born at the
end of the UK-Auburn game last
Saturday, the Wildcats were (in-
ished with probation. The long two-
year wait was over.

Sure, the No. 10 Wildcats are still
sidelined for this year’s NCAA
Tournament, but they can now see
the future, which isn’t too shabby.

UK coach Rick Pitino was almost
ecstatic yesterday at a news confer-
ence when he thought about next
season's team. He seemed ready for
the 1991-92 season to start tomor-
row.

“You guys don't realize how ex-
cited about next season I am,” Pitino
told about 20 members of the media
at his final news conference of the
season. “The potential of this team
is unbelievable. For the first time
since I’ve been here, we are going
to have some depth, especially at
guard."

Stop. Wait a minute coach. We're
not even a week into March and
you're talking about next season.

For most coaches this time of
year, the talk centers around post-
season tournaments — i.e., NCAA
Toumament But you know, when
you really think about it, why not
talk about next season because that
is the future of Wildcat basketball.

The closest UK will get to the
NCAA Tournament will be Pitino’s
studio analysis on ESPN this week-
end. So, why not talk about tomor-
row?

The Cats lost leading scorer and
rebounder Reggie Hanson and sel-
dom-used reserve Johnathon Davis.
Hanson is a big loss, but when you
think about the new folks that will
be wearing a UK uniform next sea-
son — they sure look ready to fill
in. Take a look:

-Travis Ford. 5-foot-10, 163-
pound point guard. He’s a native of
Madisonville, Ky., and a transfer
from Missouri, where he averaged
6.4 points and 3.5 assists as a fresh-
man for the Tigers. He was an Big
Eight All-Freshman selection.

oDale Brown. 6-3, 200-pound off-
guard. Pitino has done nothing but
praise the shooting abilities of this
transfer from Mississippi Guif Coast
Junior College. He shoots better
than 43 percent from three-point
range. If he learns the system, he
could start right away along side
Woods in the backcourt.

-Chris Harrison. 6-3, 165-pound
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ing list The Tollesboro, Ky., star is
currently third on the list

~Andre Riddick. 6-9, l90-pound
fonward-center. The senior from
Brooklyn is a big-time shot blocker.
rebounder and defensive specialist.
Strength is his only weakness.

-Aminu Timberlake. 6-9 1/2, 190-
pound forward. The senior from
Chicago plays very similar to Rid-
dick. Both are what Pitino considers
as an ideal big man. Both run the
floor extremely well. play solid de-
fense and give you rebounding.

-Maybe a mystery junior college
player. 6-9 or 6-10 center. Pitino
said yesterday that he is eyeing
"about two or three junior college
big men" for the Cats remaining
scholarship.

Even though the Cats finished in
the Top 10 this season, lose only
one main contributor and have a
highly touted recruiting class on the
way, which does not necessarily
mean UK will improve on its 22-
win season.

Why, you ask? The schedule.
You’re right, the Cats’ schedule this
season was among the top three.
Well, next year's could be No. 1.

The only big-wigs UK drops are
North Carolina and Kansas. They'll
still have Indiana, LSU and Ala-
bama, plus Louisville and Notrc
Dame can’t be any worse than they
were this year.

Then add Georgia Tech, Arizona
State, Arkansas and South Carolina.
Oh yeah, don't forget about the pre-
season NIT, which traditionally has
many Top 25 teams.

Uuuuuuuuuugly.

But then again, we can’t seem to
give this group enough credit.
They’ve accomplished far more
than anyone expected, even the
coach.

“I'll be honest with you, I certain-
ly never expected this," Pitino said.
“I don't think anybody did. We
are about two years ahead of sched-
ule. And you have to give all the
credit to the players."

Well, if the work ethic continues
during the next year, then these Cats
will be the focus of next spring's
NCAA party.
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 By GRAHAM SHELBY
Stall Writer

A tiny blue T-shirt drapes over a
child’s rocking chair in James Lee's
living room.

Cracked letters on the front'read
‘James Lee Basketball Camp.‘

“Oh, I had a little basketball camp
when 1 came out of school.” the
one-time UK faward said. The
camp was designed to teach ball-
handling skills to elementary-age
children.

' Most current UK students were
small enough to wear that child's T-
shirt during Lee's Wildcat days
from 1974-78.

» Lee still keeps mementos from
those days, most of them from his
seniu' year, when he helped UK win
the NCAA Championship.

But seeing the pictures on the
wall of his den, it appears that while
Lee values his basketball memories,
he has the time he spent on the has-
ketball c0urt firmly in perspective.

Lee has pictures of himself in a
Wildcat uniform and a chalk draw-
ing of himself with Jack Givens, but
most of the pictures are of family
members. There are more pictures
of Lee's wife, Denise. and their
daughters than of Givens, Kyle
Macy, Rick Robey or Joe B. Hall.

Snapshots of 2-year-old Danielle
and 5-year-old Diondra inserted in
the frame cover the edges of a paint-
ing of the championship team.

Thirteen years ago, Lee brought
thousands of Kentucky fans scream-
ing to their feet by pulling his arms
back and slamming a basketball
through a hoop.

Now he cradles tiny Diondra in
those still-muscular arms, snuggles
her and tries, with little success, to
coax her into saying hello to a visi-
tor.

Though he seems settled into his
new role as a family man, people
may wonder if Lee misses playing
the game.

“No, not really.”

These days he tries to balance his
time between working, coaching
and “being around my family and
raising my kids."

At the height of his playing days,
Lee was the sixth man on Ken-
tucky's 1978 NCAA title team,
making himself a name by being
one of the most ferocious college
players off the bench. Lee averaged
11.3 points per game during that
championship season.

Cold numbers in a stat book, how-
ever, seem far removed from the
man whose smashing dunks pre-
pared the Rupp backboards for the
likes of Charles Barkley, Dominique
Wilkins and Kenny Walker.

“When I first came to college."
Lee recalled. the dunk ”wasn‘t even
thought of."

But with help from Lee, it was
emphatically reintroduced during
Rupp Arena's inaugural season.

Lee has dunked on a lot of goals
since he graduated from UK. His
first stop was Seattle, where the
NBA‘s Supersonics drafted him in
the second round in 1978.

“The first time I walked out in
Seattle and put on a pair of shorts
that said ‘Seattle Supersonics’ - it
hits you like ‘I'm here Aw I
made it, I finally made it.”

Lee's 15 minutes of NBA fame
lasted three months before the Son-
ics waived him.

“I was the only rookie and it was
tough. (The team) just kind of ran
out of spots."

A season of semi-pro ball in Ari-

zona followed and then two years of
playing professionally in Spain.

And though the rims he presuma-
bly bent in Spain are a long way
from those he grew up with in Lex-
ington’s East end, Lee said that
some things didn’t change.

“They're very supportive of has-
ketball over there.” he said, adding
that the arena where he played,
“holds 12,0(X) people and 12,000
people show up."

Returning to the states, Lee
played one year with a semi-pro
team in Philadelphia before finish-
ing his playing career with the
Louisville Catbirds.

“I knew I didn’t want to play any-
more." he said. “The game was still
fun, but I just got burned out with
the travel.”

These days, the man once famous
for delivering power slams delivers
packages. The last four years. Lee
has spent most his days as a driver
for United Parcel Service in Louis-
ville. And since last October, he's
devoted some of his evenings to his
original career choice - basketball.

As a volunteer assistant for Ken-
tucky Country Day School, a small,

 

(Above right) James Lee, of
the 1978 championship UK
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(above) looks for a teammate.
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trivate school, Lee gives the team
some of his insight on the inside

game.

Taking the position with KCD
Ins, among other things, reminded
Lee of how long he's been away
from basketball.

KCD coach Mark Peeler said
when he announced that Lee was
going to be an assistant coach, “The
kids were like, ‘0kay.’ But their
parents said, ‘Oh, my.‘ ”

KCD's players have given Lee
their respect, despite their lack of di-
rect familiarity with Lee the player.
When he was winning his champi-
onship ring, the only thing his cur-
rent players dribbled was saliva.

Thirteen years later, senior Chris
Harding says that Lee “lightens up
practice. He's joking around a lot.
he keeps it pretty loose."

But when it's time to get serious,
"When James tells us what to do,
everybody listens."

In early February, KCD played in
the All 'A' Classic in UK’s Memo-
rial Coliseum, and there they lis-
tened to Lee get serious in a basket-
ball environment he is much more
familiar with as a player than a

coach.

The tournament returned Lee to
the building where he played for
two years before Rupp Arena
opened.

“It brought a lot of memories and
goose bumps back .Itwas amaz-
ing -— a great feeling to have. The
ushers recognized me and it gave
me cold chills.

“I don’t think any words I could
find in the Webster’s Dictionary
could describe that (feeling)."

Stepping inside Memorial Coli-
seum for the first time since he left
UK pulled him back to his days of
practicing in a sweat-drenched T-
shirt with Robey, Macy and Givens
during their championship year.

The media often referred to Ken-
tucky’s 1978 season as the season
without celebration because of the
pressure fans placed on the Wildcats
to live up to their preseason billing.

Lee said that wasn’t true for the
players. The only pressure they felt,
he said, was internal pressure.

“We had a lot of fun. We had a
great team. We were on a mission,"
he said. Whether people thought
we had fun or not, we did.

“To bring a championship home
that hadn‘t (been) there for 20 years,
you couldn’t ask for anything bet-
ter.”

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Good Eats

Why spend big bucks on a dinner when you have vending machines?

As your resident vending-
machine food critic. l happily give a
resounding “thumbs up" to the
mouth-watering array of tasty
snacks available around the campus.

After all. what hungry human can
resist that delightful family of snack
treats — the Fudge Figaroos. the
Caramel Nougat Creme Nutty Bud-
dies. the Hot Whipped Limbersh-
wartz Cheese On A Cracker or any
of the other morsels lovingly
wrapped in cellophane by the fine
folks in the packaged food industry?
Certainly not this critic.

Drop a handful of coins (note the
patriotic pictures of past presidents)
into the slot. Let your fingers do the
walking toward a new adventure in
fancy flavor. Pick a selection. any
selection. C-7. D«3, JJ-67 (the really
big vending machines). It's like
playing “Battleship." Or hit the
numbers at random and let fate pick
your tasty treat

Slowly. your bulging pupils will
follow your selection as it tumbles
down to the Swinging door. Stick
your hand through. As it pull it out.
study it. Smell it. Become at one
with one of the following items that
you’ll savor for the next few min-
utes;

-Chips can be a meal in them-
selves. provided you‘re used to hav-
ing a pound or two of Morton's Salt
at every meal. Whether it’s potato.
corn, cheese or the new “mystery"
chips. these snack delights provide
endless fun for you and your
friends. For laughs. you can sit
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each others' arteries clog.

oSoup. anyone? The modem new
coin-operated soup tureen. with ro-
botic ladle you guide yourself, al-
lows you to enjoy hot soup for just
75 cents. And for only 20 cents ex-
tra, enjoy a bowl to put it in.

-Cashews? Gesundheit.

Lemon-Obs are more like manna
from heaven than a mere cookie.
These miracle morsels make Girl
Scout cookies seem like prison meat
loaf. Your taste-buds will want to
send you a thank you note!

-Those fluorescent orange
cheese-and-cracker deals can be en-
joyed in the dark.

Anyway. it's obvious that the
friendly folks who stock the ma-
chines have been doing their culi-
na