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About 50 truck drivers and warehousemen from the August A. Busch Co. plant picketed outside the museum to show their sympathy for 16 of the distributor's non-union clerical employees who walked off their jobs on October...
Murphy said he thought the walkout would not end for some time. "Anheuser Busch [of which August Busch is a subsidiary and regional distributor] is prepared to spend any amount of money" to win the light, he said...
...Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm in New York City predicts that one-fourth of the arcades still open in the U.S. will be forced out of business within a few years. Sales of new machines to the parlors have stalled. Ira Bettelman, vice president of a major arcade-game distributor in Los Angeles, complains of being burdened with inventories of "flops," like Congo Bongo, which he now sells for 40% of its original $2,500 price...
Working for a beer distributor this summer, I was among people who load and unload trucks ten to twelve hours a day. They are the strongest and fittest individuals I have ever known. The true Spartans are not prancing around in designer tights or contorting themselves on weight machines. They are using their muscles to make a living...
Alan Shepard, 59, the first American in space, emerged as a shrewd entrepreneur after leaving NASA in 1974. Based in Houston, he has developed extensive real estate projects and is a wholesale distributor for Coors beer in southern Texas. Remembered for hitting a golf ball on the moon as commander of Apollo 14 in 1971, he relishes playing in celebrity golf tournaments and, like others of the Mercury group, is a grandfather several times over...