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Breakfast cereals used to come in boxes that contained nothing else, bearing a label with directions for cooking. Today, cereals hit the table ready to eat, bite-sized, sugar-toasted, cocoa-flavored or doughnut-shaped; their sales appeal is gauged less by flavor and nutrition than by the servings of toy automobiles, plastic submarines, code-message rings and baseball cards buried among the flakes or offered on the label. This week. Cereal Giant General Mills moves to serve a better after-breakfast bonus. On 45 million boxes of nine "Big G" cereals. General Mills will offer juvenile crunchers a serious...
...again on the family range. After a summer of salads, barbecue meats and cold cuts, supermarkets suddenly begin to sell more potatoes, carrots, turnips and stew meats, while small steaks tend to give way in popularity to roasts, ribs and the heavier cuts of meats. Tea slumps, and coffee, cocoa, soups and chili rise. Candy sales -both low-calorie and weight-increasing -jump about 40% in the fall. At the same time, down goes the lowly frankfurter; after Labor Day First National Stores, a chain of supermarkets in New England, New York and New Jersey, sell 50% fewer frankfurters...
...gone to those forward-edge communities and plants where the money, brains and manpower already are. Around the great technical schools (M.I.T., Caltech, University of California), the scientific laboratories, the aircraft plants converted to aerospace, have sprung up vast community complexes. From houses to haircuts, prices have rocketed. At Cocoa Beach near Canaveral, beach property that 17 years ago sold for $20 a foot now fetches $1,000 or more. For decades, California advertised its oranges and sunshine to lure inhabitants, and a man could move there with a banjo on his knee. Now the big companies place column after...
...Exports: Cocoa, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $73. U.S. aid (1961 ): $1,400,000. Needs foreign aid to develop phosphate industry. Main trade ties with France. Ghana's claims to Togo are threat to stabilitv...
Exports: Coffee, cocoa, aluminum. Per capita income: $70. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Despite disease (malaria rate: nearly 100%), tribal terrorists, lack of transport, agricultural economy thrives; trade balance healthy...