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...Systems, a pair of acquired hamburger and roast beef sandwich franchise operations that ran afoul of overcrowding in the fast-food business. As a result, one of the world's biggest processors of food (last year's sales: $2.3 billion from such household names as Maxwell House, JellO, Birds Eye and Gaines) is heading for its first earnings decline in 20 years. Figures are not yet complete for the fiscal year that ended in April, but earnings for the first three quarters were $84 million v. $86.4 million in the equivalent period a year...
...were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium's insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents-who had not been given menus-variously described those little orange balls decorating the table's center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines...
HARVARD-PENN--Princeton dumped the Quakers, 31-0, and even Brown kept even and almost toppled Penn, so a loss today would be an agonizing omen on November weekends to come. Without quarterback Pinto, though, the Quakers are worse than the coffee Jello at the Freshman Union. Penn will desperately go to the air, and sometimes that pays off in touchdown bombs. In fact, the Buffalo Bills have used that method successfully for eight victories in the last four years. But the Bills play 14 games a year and Penn already has its Ivy victory over Brown. The Crimson will...
Initially, Hall's concept was simple -the creation of "a mass in a room that would mold itself to you." Translating the idea into reality was more complicated. After starch proved unworkable, he tried JellO, but found it had a tendency to decompose. Reverting to simplicity, he hit upon the idea of using masses filled with water. In his first experiments, he used only cold water, but found that he "woke up with my bottom feeling like ice." A radiant-heat unit solved that problem, and after Hall spent 18 months trying to interest manufacturers and dealers...
...lyricists are constantly asked: What came first, the words or the music? In the film version of On one Clear Day You Can See Forever, what came first was Barbra Streisand. Every other member of the cast is pallid or imitative; the color is in seven flavors of JellO, and the score is eight songs, audience nothing...