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David White, 38, worked furiously to get his 66-ft. Gladiator fine-tuned for the race, lamenting that he had too much to do. "I don't like it," he said. "It's the least prepared I've been for anything." Japanese Entrant Yukoh Tada made preparations of a far different nature. He had a Buddhist monk come to the dockside and bless his boat...
Pabst is gradually pushing the price of its Blue Ribbon brand back up again in an effort to restore its status as a premium beer. For now, though, the company's hopes for stronger sales rest chiefly with its own new entrant into the low-cal sweepstakes, Jacob Best Premium Light, and its popular West Coast superpremium brand, Henry Weinhard Private Reserve...
...farm in Sumner, Miss., and entered the billboard business. In pursuit of ambition he moved the family from Cincinnati to Savannah when Ted was nine. Almost immediately Ted was shipped off to Georgia Military Academy, just outside Atlanta. He arrived six weeks after the school year started, the last entrant to his class, with an alien accent; he knew trouble was ahead, and came out fighting. Thus began a pugilistic attitude that lasted into adulthood. Turner was all the more motivated to establish his virility with his fists because he found no glory on the playing field: he tried football...
These days hardly a week goes by without another entrant into the burgeoning field of personal computers. During the past month. Burroughs and Digital Equipment Corp. announced that they were entering the hot market of microcomputers that generally sell for less than $5.000. Last week Sony, the masterly Japanese manufacturer of color television sets, videotape recorders, audio equipment and other consumer electronics, announced that it is also introducing a new desktop computer. The Sony SMC-70, which will sell for about $3,750 with standard accessories, is slightly more expensive than some of its competitors but produces excellent color graphics...
...says Mel King, manager of Vie de France, a cafe and bakery in Washington, D.C. In city after city and in-suburban shopping malls around the U.S., the croissant, a flaky pastry that has long been a staple at breakfast tables in France, has become the hottest new entrant into the $31 billion-a-year fast-food industry...