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...joys are unalloyed any more in an increasingly self-critical age. The cigarette, the fried egg and the bacon, the automobile, the toy with lead-based paint - all have been judged to be as pernicious as they are pleasurable. Now the boom has fallen on the economic boom. Time was when the word connoted something unqualifiedly positive, as in "booming industry" and "boom times." But because a boom all too often leads to inflation and then to bust, Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Massachusetts, has set up a "DRI Boom Monitor" to alert subscribers when a healthy...
...Bacon and eggs, toast, waffles, pancakes have their devotees, but the most popular American breakfast is cold cereal with milk. So, at least, say cereal makers, and they have some figures to back up their claim. From 1967 through 1972, cereal sales hardly grew at all, but since then they have been rising rapidly-by 13% in 1973, 8% in 1974 and nearly 6% last year, to 1.8 billion lbs. In those three years, dollar sales have risen from $1.1 billion to $1.7 billion, and per capita consumption of cereal has expanded almost a third, from about...
...fact, the best Crimson performances were turned in by individuals who two weeks ago weren't even planning on spending their weekend in Williams. But then Peter Havens, Cass Sunstein, and Ned Bacon all came down with one thing or another, so Scott Mead and Ken Ehrlich, numbers nine and ten against Princeton a month ago, were called upon to place five and six and represent Harvard in the "C" division this weekend...
Four days ago, Robert Blake (it was a good week for Robert Blakes) was just the captain and best player on the undefeated freshman team. Then Ned Bacon, who normally plays number seven, came down with the flu, creating a vacancy on the squad...
Cass Sunstein and Ned Bacon then added their contributions. Finishing with what Barnaby termed "a blaze of glory--he's always one thought ahead of his opponent," Sunstein triumphed in four games at number five, while Bacon (#7), according to his coach, "arrived on Saturday. He played superbly, more like a number three player than a number seven, and really smoked...