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Hurt by the drives of Miller and Anheuser, the sales of Milwaukee-based Schlitz slipped last year from 24.2 million bbls. to 22.1 million, and pretax profits plunged from nearly $97 million to $35 million. The Uihlein family (pronounced Ee-line), which controls 75% of the stock, is squabbling over methods to recoup. Chairman Daniel McKeithan Jr., an Uihlein in-law before his divorce in 1974, has brought in some outside executives and is seeking a new advertising agency to change the company's cheap-beer image. Schlitz is also thought by some to be for sale; merger talks...
...lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...
...Other EE 304 cadets seem warier about their return. One student said grimly: "There are only 273, no 272 days to graduation. We can make it." Added another: "It took guts to come back, but it took just as much guts not to return...
...West Pointers have welcomed the EE 304 cadets. Their return, Cadet Mark Wroth complained in a letter last June to the campus paper, "is a blot on the academy, regardless of our personal opinions." Some faculty members agree. The former West Point commandant of cadets, Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., was reassigned last year when he opposed any leniency. Says one major: "We've lost credibility with cadets and we've lowered our standards...
...honor code has survived unscathed, but dismissal for code violations is no longer mandatory; the academy superintendent may now keep a student in cases where dismissal seems too draconian. The EE 304 cadets thus return to the Point to find some major reforms that they themselves unwittingly...