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Food Stores, a 31 -supermarket chain based in Birmingham, had to institute bargain-basement prices: 990 per Ib. for choice steak, $1.07 for three pounds of coffee. "It is O.K. with me," says Owner Joe Bruno. Since the price cuts, sales have zoomed...
...hours or so since she had returned from her last mission, 6623 had been refueled and her bomb bay rearmed with 42 stubby 750-lb. bombs. In addition, 24 thin, cigar-shaped 500-Ib. bombs had been attached in clusters to her long, swept-back wings (total span: 185 ft.). At 10:30 p.m., as low-hanging clouds raced past a sickle moon, a beat-up bus unloaded 6623's six-man crew for the night. The aircraft commander, Captain Ed Petersen, a 27-year-old graduate of the Air Force Academy, walked around the big plane, flashlight...
...finally on after a second antenna had been aligned with earth, they could direct Duke's attention to a large, football-sized rock that glittered with imbedded black glass fragments. "It's a 'great Scott'-sized rock," said the delighted Duke, recalling the record 22-Ib. specimen picked up by Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott last year...
...Phase II began. The huge A. & P. chain lost money last year. New consumer-protection laws have also boosted the super-marketeers' costs; they often have to put meat in relatively expensive plastic see-through trays and must absorb the administrative expenses of posting "unit prices" (prices per Ib.) of all goods...