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...ideal figure for modern hogs features large meaty hams. To produce these delicacies, says Dr. Hubert Heitman Jr., professor of animal husbandry at the University of California at Davis, hogs should get ham-building exercise. He tested his theory by building a stand-up feeding trough with a cleated shelf in front on which the hogs could rest their feet. "It's sort of like a person eating off a mantel," he explains...
...reporting on this week's cover story, wound up convinced that discounting is here to stay, and that Eugene Ferkauf of Korvette's is the most artful practitioner. He followed Ferkauf around for days, on his quick marches through his stores, with breaks only at stand-up lunch counters for a hot dog or a quick cup of coffee. Ferkauf was determined to give him an intense course in the theory and practice of discounting; and because of Ferkauf's relaxed way of operating, Gart soon found himself drawn into giving opinions. At one point, Ferkauf casually...
Harvard was hitless up to the third inning, when third baseman Mike Drummey sent one screaming into deep left-center field for a stand-up triple. Following him, Terry Bartolet slapped an easy grounder to Tufts shortstop Guidi, but Guidi booted it. Drummey scored and Bartolet, safe on first, made it 2 to 0 on Dave Morse's double to center before the inning was over. The Harvard rally came with...
...with an hour-long cocktail party and ended at 3:30 a.m., with the crowd singing God Bless America. In between, while klieg lights stabbed the desert sky, 9,000 guests milled and drank and watched an assortment of 64 entertainers ranging from acrobats and show girls to Stand-Up Comics Shecky Greene and Myron Cohen. The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That...
...perfectly willing to listen to other people; it is simply that most people would rather listen to her. As a result, she expends so much energy on talking?her blue eyes flashing, her arms semaphoring ?that she has little strength left for other physical effort. She is a stand-up comedian who sits down...