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...tongue-twisting name of Sun Rise Instant Coffee Mellowed with Chicory, is aimed at the younger generation raised on sweet cola drinks. Sun Rise contains 46% chicory, a nutty-flavored herb long used in Europe and the U.S. South to "stretch" coffee, and at $2.88 per 8-oz. jar, it costs less than the company's regular instant brands. The Chicago-based Jewel Food chain reports brisk sales of its own $3.19-per-lb. cof-fee-and-chicory blend at stores in the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coffee Breaks | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...Estimating oil reserves is like guessing the number of beans in a jar-only the jars are buried deep underground and you aren't even sure exactly where they are hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Guessing What's There | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...year-old writer who lives in a one-room cabin overlooking the Pacific. I warmed to her immediately, more spontaneously than I have reacted to anyone in months. The New Republic, lying next to a jar of honey on a checkered table cloth, made me laugh inwardly. But at the same time, I became defensive because this woman had done what I often dream of but will never do: dropped out of a respectable Eastern college. I borrowed her phone--only one family in the valley has one--and called the friend I would rejoin in San Francisco the next...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...eyes, puts little exclamation marks in they place. Are ya on my beam? Boogie's when the rest of the world is lookin' you straight in the eye sayin' you'll never be able ta make it and ya got your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion.] 'Yes I can. Yes I can.' I say think of yourself as a potato chip and life as a dip. I say think of yourself as a chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...usual with anti-freedom vigilantes--especially the type like Stephen Saperstein who think themselves otherwise--they forever shout "foul" when caught with their hands in the cookie jar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Bedfellows' | 3/18/1977 | See Source »

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