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Most of the other Orions were too busy at the training table set for them by their hosts, the San Francisco Giants, to get homesick. Convinced that the Western diet is the secret to the power of U.S. players, the Orions wolfed down platters of roast beef, steak, corned beef and cabbage, brownies and, after a few lessons on gnawing techniques, corn on the cob. Something worked. After losing their first five games by narrow margins, the Orions exploded for eleven hits to trounce the Oakland Athletics...
...food sale calculated to bring nervous heartburn to France's gastronomic nationalists. Below posters of cowboys and astronauts, shoppers at the Inno department store in Paris' chic Passy district snatched up U.S. imports: Bachman's Hanky Panky cocktail corn-puffs, Uncle Ben's rice, Florigold grapefruit, Tropicana orange juice...
...that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers), the Ingallses' frontier life comes through as an intermittently brutal testing process. Scarlet fever blinds Sister Mary: blackbirds eat the corn crop: the family is snowbound for months and nearly starves (The Long Winter...
...Canny Corn. Vittert had a compulsion to start from scratch. Shunning both the family bankroll and the business his late father had built, he went straight from college to Indianapolis to raise cash on his own for starting a company. Within days he persuaded a group headed by Insurance Executive John Burkhart, a wealthy DePauw alumnus whom he had never met, to put up $150,000. Burkhart also agreed to serve as board chairman. Vittert set up shop in a windowless cubicle, recruited five staff members and began searching for clients, traveling around the country on cut-rate "youth-fare...
...wanted to be closer to its Connecticut laboratories and factory. Chesebrough-Pond's is only one of several large firms to move all or part of their central offices out of New York in the past five years. Among the others: American Can, American Cyanamid, Borden, Uniroyal, PepsiCo, Corn Products, Shell Oil, Continental Oil, M.W. Kellogg, Lone Star Cement, Olin Corp., Stauffer Chemical...