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...cities; for the villages she joined forces with a Vietnamese girl from a strict Confucian family who had just graduated from the University of Tennessee. They were only allowed to go to "secure" villages with Marines, but on arrival it was easy to give them the slip. "The villages are shaped like honeycombs, with each house at a different angle. It was very hard for a soldier to keep his bearings...
...cash register. As the computer flashes the price of each item on the screen, it also rings up the cost on the register, emitting bleeps for each item. When the computer is finished, the cashier punches a button, the total shows up on the screen and an itemized sales slip pops from the register. All the cashier then has to do is ring up the money and make change...
PEOPLE beefing about the oppressive price of food may find it hard to believe, but the supermarket business has traditionally operated with profits as thin as a sales slip and competition as keen as a butcher's blade. Prices are going up not because supermarkets are squeezing out more money, but primarily because they have had to pay more to wholesalers, who in turn have had to pay more to farmers. The July wholesale price index rose at an annual rate of 8.4%, from 6% the month before, mainly because of food costs. Retail food prices will continue...
Male delegates were sufficiently on guard not to begin a talk to women with such traditional lines as "You lovely ladies" or "What feminine pulchritude." Even the slightest slip of the tongue by the best-meaning male brought swift retribution. At one of the sessions of the Women's Caucus, McGovern was introduced by Liz Carpenter with the compliment: "We are all here because of him." Trying to make a joke, McGovern replied: "The credit should go to Adam." Seeing nothing funny, the women hissed until he pleaded: "Can I recover by saying Adam and Eve?" Shouted an alternate...
...chief executive of the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, has provided us the textbook case of neglect. Clancy spent so much time over the last decade in a challenge before the Federal Communications Commission trying to save the corporation's lucrative subsidiary, WHDH-TV, that he let the Herald Traveler slip into organizational disarray. Now, having lost the battle before the FCC, he has been forced to sell the Traveler to the Hearst Corporation, owner of the Boston Record American; a decade's inattention had left the paper wholly dependent on the television revenue of WHDH. Today, Boston has one less...