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...coming into our stores to pick up entry blanks," says Robert O. Jones, national director of catalogue sales for the giant retailing chain. Sears expected about 15,000 entries. But envelopes began pouring in to the Sears Tower in Chicago; then came huge canvas mailbags, each stuffed to the brim with 1,000 snapshots. In just two days in mid-April, the company received a total of more than 50,000 snapshots. "It seems like we got a lot from small towns," says Jones. "Florida was big, big, big. I don't know, maybe it's because there...
...chains wait to be sorted. Cardboard boxes over-flow with gold cigarette cases and compacts; walls of shelves are full of antique silver candlesticks and saltcellars: pails are awash in silver quarters and dimes. In one room in the Empire Trading Service, 30 coffee cans sit filled to the brim with gold teeth, crowns and inlays...
Most public opinion analysts suspect that Kennedy's popularity may already have peaked, that it is the mythic Ted Kennedy who leads Carter 2 to 1. Says Pollster Field: "His popularity is like a great reservoir that is filled to the brim...
...overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma and theology, logic and arguments. Whatever I pour into it now will overflow. There is no room left for anything to enter. Unless you empty your mind, what can I give...
...situation is worsening," an hydrologist for the National Weather Service said yesterday. The river rose to 20 feet above flood stage and just a foot below the brim of the weakened makeshift dikes...