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DIED. Sylvan N. Goldman, 86, inventor of the shopping cart and multimillionaire philanthropist whose fortune was estimated last year by Forbes magazine to be $200 million; in Oklahoma City. Supermarket Owner Goldman built the first shopping-cart prototype in the mid-1930s using a folding chair as a model. The idea, which he patented and eventually marketed, came to him while he watched women using then standard market baskets. Said he: "They had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy...
...toward industrialization, and generally retained the strength of its democratic institutions. Under Indira Gandhi it became the sixth nation to explode a nuclear device and one of the first to launch its own space satellite. Yet India has at the same time remained a nation mired in the bullock-cart age, whose exploding population is expected to reach the billion mark by the end of the century...
...PERFECT COUNTERPOINT to "Creole Giselle" was the first work of the night, "Troy Dance," a short, fantastic work choreographed by Robert North with music by Bob Downes. The dozen-man ensemble rolled, leaped, and cart wheeled across a bare stage in various pairs and groups. This comical celebration of machodom neatly balanced the somber 'Creole Giselle,' reminding us of the perversely ambiguous history of the American south. The Brazilian music--rhythmic drums, cymbals and xylophones and the set's rapidly changing colors provided a lively background for the jazzy, athletic dance...
...wheels her cart down supermarket aisles, Barbara Harris is stunned. "When people say that inflation has been checked," says the Los Angeles public relations consultant, "I listen in shock and disbelief. Just today I went across the street to get a loaf of bread, and it was $1.43. I was floored." Although Harris, 40, sticks to a tight budget and avoids stocking up on frills, the weekly grocery bill for her family of three has climbed from $80 to $100 in the past year. That 25% hike is nearly six times as great as the modest increase in the Consumer...
...DiGiovanni is now renting a portion of that sidewalk next to the building to a company which has subleased it to a number of push-cart vendors...