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...companies have noted a modish increase in their profits as well. Gerber Products in Fremont, Mich., makers of baby food, pacifiers, baby bottles and other merchandise, recorded sales of $282.6 million at the end of 1972. Last year sales had swelled to $631 million. Child Craft, in Salem, Ind., a baby-furniture maker, has noted a "remarkable upsurge" in sales. One of the reasons, says David Branaman, vice president of sales, is that some couples spend up to $2,500 on clothing, furniture and equipment by the time the baby comes home from the hospital...
...Merrell Lynd, 85, pioneering scholar and co-author of two sociological classics, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937); in Warren, Ohio. Lynd and her late husband Robert melded anthropological and psychological insights to research the daily lives of the residents of Muncie, Ind., the first such major study of a U.S. community...
Wayne Addison, 39, of Kokomo, Ind., lost his job with Chrysler last August, and has seven children to support, but claims not to be worried. "We've been cutting corners for years," he says. Addison's wife returned to work testing transistors at Delco, a division of General Motors. He buys most of the family groceries directly from farms, spending only $55 a week on food. Addison also barters his services, repairing a neighbor's clothes dryer in exchange for a new shirt. Still, Addison is bothered that his two eldest daughters must pay most...
Vincennes, Ind...
...almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia...