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...about the flies and heat all the time and talk about "being stuck out here in this hellish place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died of a heart attack during the shooting, they tell me. No wonder. I suppose...
...something. First, someone has to draw up elaborate "military specifications" (mil-specs) for almost anything that the services buy, be it an aircraft carrier or a wood interdental stimulator (tooth-pick). Twenty-four pages are required to list the specs for T shirts, 15 pages for chewing gum, and 17 for Worcestershire sauce. One result: the Pentagon pays $10 a case for Worcestershire sauce, vs. $8 for a commercial brand...
...final years in the major leagues, Ball Four Author Jim Bouton, 43, was always looking for a gimmick to extend his pitching career, and as an ex-ballplayer, he has not changed much. His idea for Big League Chew, a bestselling chewing plug-like pouch of shredded gum for sand-lot Harvey Kuenns, made Bouton rich. And he has now moved on to the diamond status symbol that really separates the men from the boys: baseball cards. (The men are on them, and the boys collect them.) Bouton has come up with a proletarian variation on the real thing, individually...
Frustrated advertisers are even more dismayed. This season they had planned to pour a whopping $400 million into commercials for everything from autos to chewing gum. The walkout has already cost these companies millions of dollars worth of irreplaceable exposure and could mean a substantial loss of business...
...something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine. It is the victim who does the actual killing. That is why moviemakers focus so carefully on the glass of smoky milk jiggling on the silver tray as it progresses up the winding staircase toward the invalid wife. They...