Word: boxful
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...cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste in breakfast food and his athletic prowess...
Like shipowners everywhere, the Soviets will make a special effort to haul high-priced cargo. One exasperated New York shipping executive says: "Look, 20% off a $4,000 box [a container] of electronic gear is obviously a better deal for them than cutting a fifth off a $1,500 box of car parts or wastepaper." Western shipping companies consider these tactics predatory, and West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom delivered official messages of protest to Moscow in the past four months. The British also sent a delegation to haggle rather unsuccessfully on a Russian yacht cruising...
...weaknesses we all have. Hopefully the carefully chosen Scenes from the Comedy of Errors at the Loeb Ex will show just that. Performances are tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Ex. Free tickets are available at the Loeb box office the day before the performance...
...innovative statesman. Although he may privately have been trying only to call Sadat's bluff, the Israeli Premier accepted Sadat's proposal. The commitments were firmed up, in an extraordinary act of television diplomacy, during interviews with Anchorman Walter Cronkite on last Monday's CBS Evening News (see box). Begin thereupon summoned the Knesset to provide the necessary authorization...
Things opened up in the second period, including the penalty box door, which greeted Kevin O'Donoghue and George Hughes with penalties after less than a minute and a half had expired...