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Potato chips and pretzels of two different sizes were provided for those who did not like the cookies. There was even a choice of three dips for the spectators and swimmers in attendance-mild onion, sharp onion, and pepper. "Wow, this pepper dip reminds me of the Islands," one of the male spectators was overheard saying...
...next day, you try to do the temptation walk to the belting rhythms of Jr. Walker and the All Stars playing Pucker Up Buttercup. "Let everything bounce!" cries our instructress, a blonde Viking in pink tights who bounces without even trying. You bounce some more when, bypassing the triple-dip chrome barbells, you are harnessed to a rig called the wood roller massaging machine. Your reaction is immediate: "T-t-u-r-n-n i-t-t o-f-f-f!" BACK WALKING. All is calm in yoga class. "Sink deeply into the floor," whispers our guru, demonstrating the corpse...
...Maine-a prospect that displeases some companies so much that they may test the law's constitutionality. In addition, the law states that the oil companies must accept unlimited liability for damage caused by oil pollution. Nor will the state have to prove negligence to dip into the fund. Richardson, the bill's sponsor, says: "We will clean up the mess first and argue about it later...
...Arthur Burns' warning to Nixon in March 1960 that unless money was made easier, a recession could set in and cost him the presidency. Nixon wrote: "Burns' conclusion was that unless some decisive governmental action was taken, and taken soon, we were heading for another economic dip which would hit its low point in October, just before the elections...
Wall Street had braced itself for fourth-quarter profit declines among the auto, oil, steel and chemical companies, but some businesses that had seemed almost impervious to economic slowdown also reported earnings declines. IBM, for example, showed the first quarterly earnings dip in ten years, causing a pronounced decline in the stock and general disenchantment with other "glamour" shares. Early reports leave little doubt that overall corporate pretax profits dipped from the third quarter to the last quarter of 1969, probably about 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis. Standard & Poor's forecasts a significant decline in the first quarter...