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...makes the soup that Campbell sells by the millions of cans, botanists have been working for years on different strains of Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster. Just when the bumper crop was ready to be picked from California to New Jersey, the Campbell Soup Co. found itself saddled with a strike...
...concern. The Republicans are particularly worried because of his strength in the South. Boosters of both Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans to kick off an entire Phooey campaign, complete with Phooey buttons, Phooey bumper stickers, and even a sky writer to spell out the word high above Atlanta's state capitol. And there's more to come, says Moore, since "we have not yet begun to phooey...
...notable loser is Ford's Mustang, whose sales have dropped an abysmal 24.5% since Jan. 1. The pull of the intermediates-about the same bumper-to-bumper length as the full-sized cars of eight years ago-seems to reflect a conservative trend in auto buying. In part, this is attributed to a more mature group of buyers: many youngsters, who would normally buy the hot-shot styles, are either in the military service or anticipating a call...
More official hawkers moved among the people. Some were selling copies of The Wallace Story for $5.00, bumper stickers for 25c, buttons for 10c. Finally the organist slid into a rendition of "Dixie", Seymour moved back to the podium yelling, "And now here he is, Ladies and Gentlemen, here he is. The next president of the United States. The next president of the United States. The Honorable George Wallace." The Secret Service men moved forward on the stage, the organist took out all stops, and the audience was back on its feet, cheering, whistling, applauding, and loving America...