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...Rush to Foo-Foo Juice. The new customers are not just Madison Avenue-niks and Wilshire Boulevardiers, who might be especially uninhibited about nurturing their masculine beauty. Men from Boston to Houston are sloshing themselves with expensive colognes and lotions as never before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Place: Boys & Girls Together | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

That bright view of the future include some basic assumptions: 1) the cold wa will worry along at its present intensity draining goods and manpower into defense against a catastrophic war that will no occur; 2) the U.S. will continue to foo the bill for expensive space exploration and aid to foreign countries; 3) most important of all, the nation's technology will continue to improve, for freedom from want is not in the cards for a static society. Some sample predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Happy Future Days | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Foo Hsing Theater is a forceful reminder that Broadway starves the senses. Performing centuries-old classics. The Beautiful Bait and The White Snake, this Chinese theater troupe refreshes the eye by splashing the stage with color. It fills the air with exotic sounds. It galvanizes the playgoer physically with the grace and discipline of bodily action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Chinese Fireworks | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...while, a small side-stage group of instrumentalists brews a weird and furious counterpoint of sound. The drum mer underscores and paces the action with the charged beat of an Oriental Gene Krupa. After its two-week stay in Manhattan, the Foo Hsing Theater, which has toured the U.S. from coast to coast and toast to toast, opens in Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Chinese Fireworks | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...constructing his food empire, which now stretches from frozen egg foo yung to a fruit pie-filling firm called Northland Foods. Paulucci adhered to a two-point credo: "Cut out the middleman" and "Take advantage of waste." Shopping for bargains around the world, Chun King buys beef from Australia and shrimp from Ecuador, contracts directly with Chippewa Indians for wild rice and with Oklahoma and Texas farmers for mung beans, from which bean sprouts are grown. The simpler ingredients, such as celery and mushrooms, Chun King produces for itself-and here the profiting from waste enters. When Paulucci found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Sweet Success, Chinese Style | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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