Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anne Meara manages to chew gum and act at the same time as a Gerald Ford figure; her role is amusing, but it fits poorly into the narrative. Playing Kissinger with a Greek accent, Melina Mercouri advises Jackson from abroad, using a portable phone to check on the abbess' progress. It is funny once or twice, but not as a running gag. Still, there are few problems with the acting save the occasional air of embarrassment from the nuns who deliver the poorest lines...
Died. Philip Knight Wrigley, 82, chairman of the world's largest chewing gum company (1976 sales: $370 million) and owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Elkhorn, Wis. The only son of the founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Philip Wrigley became president of the family business at 31, and head of his father's baseball team in 1934. The Cubs introduced ladies' days and radio and TV coverage of games, but the team has gone 31 years without a pennant under Wrigley's somewhat eccentric proprietorship...
...vacuous Linda Ronstadt chews gum, is learning to live alone, sometimes takes uppers for concerts, wore jeans (good God!) to an Inaugural celebration and in general acts and talks like an addlepated twelve-year...
...very least, the FDA'S action will probably force a sharp change in the eating and drinking habits of many Americans. Such products as diet jams and jellies, sugarless chewing gum and even some familiar toothpaste tastes will have to be drastically altered. Sweet 'n Low and other sugar substitutes may vanish from the table, forcing dieting coffee and tea drinkers to take their favorite brew straight-or with sugar. Leading soft-drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are promising to continue marketing diet drinks, presumably by reducing sugar content of some beverages, resorting to sweeteners like...
...aspartame, was found by G.D. Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle's test data. Another contender to succeed saccharin is a chemical called xylitol; used as a chewing-gum sweetener in tests in Finland and the U.S., it sharply reduced formation of cavities. But it costs more than sugar and has the same number of calories...