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EVERYONE HAS HEARD the sayings. "You shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket" and "Cover all the bases just to be sure." The logic is sell-evident. Yet, for the sale of convenience, individuals often accumulate valuable items in one place, or fail to spread their options as widely as possible. National governments often go this easy route as well, and the Reagan Administration is no exception...
...industry expected its consumer-marketing savvy to propel its brands to the top. Beginning with the purchase of Taylor Wine in New York State, it created a division called the Wine Spectrum and then added the West Coast's Sterling Vineyards and Monterey Vineyard to its basket of wines. Coca-Cola shook up the industry with an advertising campaign boasting that its Taylor California Cellars was preferred to competing brands, which it identified by name. Sales grew smartly, up 17% last year...
...Peabody Museum is looking for a few good basket restorers...
...with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese and ducks; eels from the canal ditches; fish from their ponds; fruit; fresh vegetables; herbs, spices, ginger root; delicacies. Canaries are for sale again, along with other caged birds, and cricket boxes. Shoemakers ply their trade; itinerant dentists, with their foot-paddle drills, have reappeared...
...Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, N.Y., for a game to raise funds for needy pro-basketball players. Indeed, the old stars do still seem to have it. Cousy, 55, handled the ball with magical dexterity, and when 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain, 46, slam-dunked a basket, the crowd roared as if "Wilt the Stilt" had never missed a season. Twyman, 49, who originally organized the benefit, does not think the pro game has changed all that much. Says Twyman, now a wholesale-grocery businessman: "If I was in shape and 23 again, I could probably play with...