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...starts with the centerpiece of the dullest football team ever created? Csonka the bulldozer was the instrument of this death by perfect execution. Would you pay $9 a game for a package of seven season and three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo 19 for a re-re-run. I hate to say it, but give...
Backwoods Appeal. In the midst of country's booming supermarket of traditional goods and new brands, teaser displays and soaring profits, Merle Haggard stands virtually alone as a pure, proud and prominent link between country's past and present. He is not about to record with a couple of dozen violins to woo the easy-listening audience or hire a rock band to turn on the kids. Haggard has wide enough range and appeal already. Two of country's best-selling performers, Charley Pride and Charlie Rich, sing primarily heart songs. Tom T. Hall specializes in social...
...been wounded. All the victims have been whites, and the Zebra killer is described as a black man who strikes in the early evening. Three days after the Shields slaying, a man who called himself Zebra robbed, beat and killed Frank Carlson, the assistant manager of a San Mateo supermarket, and raped Carlson's wife. Because the attack does not match the pattern of the others, investigators have doubts that it was a Zebra killing...
...supermarket chain's house brand of canned and other processed foods; they sell for at least 10% less than well-known labels. In fact, many house brands are produced by name-brand food companies. Also, pass up "instant foods" that take less time to prepare but are usually more expensive than their inconvenient alternatives. By buying house brands and avoiding convenience foods, a typical middle-income family could chop $350 off its annual food budget...
...many consumers inflation is prompting a reluctant renaissance of pioneer frugality. Mrs. F. Dale Lah of Hampton township, Pa., has begun baking her own bread with store-bought frozen dough and getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking...