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...supermarket age," said the Chief Justice, "we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker-barrel grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900." When it comes to funds, he noted, "the entire cost of the federal judicial system is $128 million," compared with $200 million for a single C-5A military airplane. But "more money and more judges alone is not the real solution," he said. "Some of what is wrong is due to the failure to apply the techniques of modern business to the management of the purely mechanical operation of the courts-of modern record...
...Economists, like housewives, are far from satisfied with that improvement. Still, the June movement looked like a trend, because it followed an earlier deceleration in wholesale price indexes. Wholesale meat prices, for example, began to drop in April, and last month beef and pork prices fell at the supermarket counter. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, testified that he expects food prices to decline in coming months...
...Tuesday I circulated a petition against the war in Viet Nam and later signed one against our local supermarket; on Thursday I listened to Simon and Garfunkel records while reading instructions for my self-cleaning oven; on Friday I read Dr. Spock's treatise on dissent in the morning, then checked his Infant and Child Care in the afternoon regarding the baby's rash; on Saturday night I discussed Soul on Ice with my baby sitter before going to a party where the only pot was the one my husband is developing...
Although the completed guidance system will not be ready for widespread installation for at least five years, those who kept pace with the pacers deemed the experiment unbelievably successful. "It is incredible," marveled Woburn Supermarket Checker Jeannette Gillis. "When you pull out, there isn't a car there." Most motorists, in fact, like Billerica Store Manager Bob Gaughan, found the system almost suspiciously painless. "I still had a tendency," Gaughan remembers, "to turn around and look at the oncoming traffic. Just to make sure...
...Manhattan, four F.W. Woolworth stores and a supermarket were fire-bombed one night last week with reasonably sophisticated incendiary devices ignited by acid. Two days later in Washington, bombs went off at four Latin American embassies...