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...plane flew over Providence en route to Boston, the pilot turned on his FM radio and heard the announcement for an upcoming concert. Wow! He immediately landed the plane, took a taxi downtown and bought a pair of tickets. Then he resumed his flight. Standing in line at a supermarket in Plymouth, Mass., a young couple was given a handbill bearing similar news. Wow! They left their cart where it was and dashed downtown to buy tickets. And so it went as the word spread. "Is he really coming?" asked a teen-age girl at the ticket window...
Gourmet Food. The Government has won interlocking-directorate cases on slimmer evidence. Several years ago, it won a ruling that R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., the New York-based department-store chain, and Safeway Stores, Inc., now the nation's biggest supermarket group, could not share a director because Macy's sold gourmet foods. If the Government can establish a precedent that ties between banks and nonbank companies are subject to the law, and that banks and insurance companies compete, it can be expected to launch more suits. It might contend that the same person cannot serve...
...public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit that the supermarket chain let them get separated ("Pride was forced to take a back seat...
...movement is biggest in that supermarket of Eastern cults and fads, California, which claims 123,000 meditators. According to the TM organization's statistics, there are also 300,000 TM meditators and 2,000 teachers in other countries. Canada leads the way with 90,000, followed by West Germany...
...year to 10.2 million tons so far this year. The Soviets would like to buy still another 11 million metric tons because of poor harvests in Russian wheatfields. The resulting shock waves have been felt throughout the U.S. economy and have contributed materially and psychologically to inflation in the supermarket...