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...folks at Hershey Foods Corp. are feeling very happy these days. Reese's Pieces, a steady but unspectacular-selling brand of candy, has blossomed into an unexpected summer hit. Sales of the peanut butter-flavored candy shot up 65% in June after the release of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which is filling movie theaters at a record clip. In the film, E.T., an endearing space creature, is lured out of hiding by a boy who scatters pieces of the candy in his path...
This movie tie-in all but fell into the lap of Hershey, which sold some $35 million worth of Reese's Pieces last year. E.T.'s producers offered to use the Hershey product only after Mars, Inc., maker of M & Ms, turned it down. Hershey Vice President Jack Dowd then flew to Hollywood to see still photos from the film and make sure that the candy was not going to be in a monster film...
...think!) young married woman except I can't seem to get enough chocolate. I blow the housekeeping money on Godiva chocolate strawberry creams. I count the minutes till the weekly shipment of Teuscher champagne truffles arrives from Switzerland. I hide Tobler Extra-Bitter sweet around the house. Hershey's Kisses mean more to me than Harry's (he's my hubby). Sometimes I even dream Harry has been dipped in milk chocolate. When I can't get chocolate, I sweat and shake. Am I an ADDICT? Is there anything...
Before being appointed to his job last year, Hayes, 48, was for eight years director of a hypertension clinic in Hershey, Pa. There he observed the baneful effects of salt and learned to his frustration that patients ordered by their doctors to go on low-salt diets were unable to comply, even if they tried. Says he, "I might tell the Pennsylvania Dutch, for instance, that they could have their sauerkraut if they watched their sodium from other foods." But, he notes, they couldn't tell how much was in the other foods...
...Crimson's afternoon, taking the 1500 and 3000 distances in record smashing times. In the talent-packed 1500, Stricker held off Yale contender Debbie Schulte to finish first at 4:25,70, three seconds better than junior Darken Beckford's year-old mark. Harvard senior Co-Captain Mary Hershey initially took the lead in the 1500 but finished fourth, behind Schulte and teammate Kate Wiley, who took third...