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...Bread & Butter Issue. With all their problems oldsters can vote (and now make up 20% of the electorate). So can the increasing numbers of budget-pressed young adults who, busy raising large families, feel the extra burden of carrying the heavy medical expenses of elderly parents and relatives. Result: the age-old problem of old age has become a red-hot 1960 election issue...
...only one of Douglas' troubles. The phasing out of manned aircraft and quick changes in missile technology are leaving the company without a bread-and-butter contract. Items: ¶ The Thor program is fast ending...
...devil," it apparently dawned on him that Brazilians have no vast yearning to take their cues from a reckless government on a chaotic island that is only one-tenth as populous as their own country. Two days before his visit was supposed to end, he dashed off bread-and-butter messages to his hosts, climbed aboard a plane for safer terrain in Venezuela...
...hard-sell literature of television commercials, the fastest-growing category offers panaceas for unusual problems. There is a floor covering for viewers who have elephants running through their kitchens and a deodorant that improves the social attractions of marble statues. There have been pens that write on butter, watches for attachment to boat propellers, electric shavers for Georgians who want to shave peaches and for kids who like to shave balloons. But the season's most ingenious problem-solver is just gurgling in: an instant lather for men who like to shave under water...
...made a fateful decision. She had no manufacturing training or experience, no capital, and a product that sold for 25?, v. only 10? for a loaf of regular bread. "Fortunately," she says, "I was too ignorant to know about these matters." She put a loaf of bread and some butter in a package, took a train to Manhattan and walked into Charles & Co., specialty grocers. There, she generously buttered a slice, thrust it at the manager. He ordered 24 loaves a day. Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid...