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...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...
...Food and Drug Administration recall followed the death on Feb. 6 of Eric Malthay of Brussels. Malthay, 27, contracted botulism, a lethal form of food poisoning, after eating a 7¾-oz. can of Alaska salmon. Concern intensified in the U.S. after a 68-year-old Hartford, Conn., woman was hospitalized in critical condition on March 31. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said last week that botulism was probably not the cause of the illness, but the hospital insisted that...
...Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Michigan, with its innovative stage, codesigned by the late Jo Mielziner, seems as enchanting as the Petit Trianon in Versailles. His 23-story Knights of Columbus headquarters, suspended between four massive columns, which guards the freeway exit from New Haven, Conn., has rightly been called paramilitary...
...similar concern for improving working conditions rather than the corporate image inspired the design for the Union Carbide headquarters building in Danbury, Conn., now nearing completion. Virtually all offices are of the same size. Even junior executives can choose from 15 basic office styles...
...Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is not to find a new mold or formula for producing architecture like so many automobiles, but to design each building with a fresh enthusiasm for meeting its specific requirements...