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...more per gal. to gasoline prices by year's end, lifting a typical family's automotive fuel bill by $250. According to one estimate, food prices will go up by some $70 per family, since energy is used intensively throughout the food chain, from farm to supermarket. Anyone unfortunate enough to heat his home with oil is likely to find that the cost of keeping warm in the Northeast this winter will rise...
...music. In his early teens he joined a band called the Black Rockers ("We wore black turtlenecks, black pants and black shoes, and we still weren't very good"), subsequently left school remembering the advice of a youth employment officer: "Have you ever thought about working in a supermarket...
Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for its price, putting it back... Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming...
...first quarter. One result: the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) has been intensifying its pressure on business. Two weeks ago, it strong-armed Sears Roebuck and Co. into rolling back its catalogue prices by 5%, and last week Giant Food Inc., the Washington, D.C.-based supermarket chain, agreed under Government pressure to reduce prices on a number of items. Following up on a longstanding threat, COWPS also released the name of a company it considered a major price offender, Denver-based Ideal Basic Industries, Inc., one of the nation's largest cementmakers...
...chicken in every spot at Far West sports and public events is the flappable radio station KGB chicken from San Diego. With its infowlable agility to leap and cavort, the chicken clucks up everything from San Diego Padres baseball games to supermarket openings. Feathered by Ted Giannoulas, 24, who now earns more than $50,000 a year for such appearances, the bird has flown as far as New York City with increasing recognition. Now, however, Giannoulas and KGB, which conceived the bird, are tangling over rights. KGB has filed a $250,000 damage suit claiming ownership of the chicken concept...