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...curb inflation. Meany made it clear at a news conference last week that he was "very, very wary of any kind" of controls. He did, however, emphasize the need to expand jobs. Said Lane Kirkland, No. 2 man at the AFL-CIO: "Everything else is on the back burner...
...apartment with a couple of shopping bags full of food, the vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic car toon with a new caption...
...love the Th.D.," Stendahl said last week. "I have one myself. But if Th.D.s will always be discriminated against because of nomenclature, we shouldn't hold on to it." He said his feeling is "we should put the Th.D. on ice, on the back burner...
...founded the company, most recently in 1973. That was when Revlon introduced a new perfume under the improbable name "Charlie." Associates grimaced, competitors smiled, and Revson went on talking about how it was perfect for "the woman who is sort of liberated but who isn't a bra burner." Revson's semi-lib market turned out to be there all right-and enormously profitable too. In that first year, Charlie sales exceeded $10 million in the U.S., and today stores sell more Charlie than any other American fragrance...
...great North Vietnamese victory. The North Vietnamese did not take Military Region I and II by force of arms, but by a government decision to evacuate. That does not make the North Vietnamese army ten feet tall. A year ago, Hanoi had put the war on the back burner. The level of violence would have got down to the endemic level. Then came the traumatic period: the Nixon resignation, appropriation cuts, a new Congress, and the Soviets quadrupled their aid to the North Vietnamese army in the past year. They want to get credit for the victory...