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...boycott had made its mark. Prices, which held steady early in the week, began to slip in some places, though it is still too soon to tell if the housewives will ultimately succeed. In Chicago, wholesale beef and hog prices dropped a few cents per Ib.; Grand Union Co., the tenth-largest food chain in the U.S., cut the price of beef, pork, lamb and veal by 100 per Ib., and a few other chains also made reductions. Some 200 leaders of the New Majority -housewives, labor-union officials and consumer-group representatives-prepared to go to Washington this week...
...that condensed book, whether it is a designer's prank or decorator's slip, it neatly symbolizes the transcendent banality that is shot through the movie like a dose of glucose. Kahlil Gibran would sound like Wittgenstein next to the woozy wisdom dispensed here: "You'd be surprised how a little courtesy all around makes the roughest problems so much smoother." "There are moments in every man's life when he glimpses the eternal." "We teach that virtue lies in moderation...
...stress is that with the end of foreign intervention in Viet Nam, the region has a second chance. The West threw away an opportunity for a settlement in 1954, after Geneva. I believe the U.S., the Soviet Union, Japan and China are determined not to let the second opportunity slip. We shall support the proposal for a zone of peace and neutrality in Southeast Asia...
...Slip-ups came like ice on the steppes. The Italians estimated that 17 million cubic yards of earth would have to be moved for the plant's foundation; the final total was closer to 40 million. When construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built...
...didn't want them to switch to some other company," explains an Exxon executive. In the end, Exxon reports, not a single dealer left the corporate fold because of the name change. Confusion inside the Exxon board room was so great that at one point directors who let slip the name of an old brand like Enco or Humble had to pay a 25? fine into small tiger-shaped banks...