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...audience that others are not reaching. He thinks that most major publications here are aimed "at the rich and the intellectual." "Daily newspapers are limited and local," he says, "and national magazines have to depend on advertising dollars and the opinions of Madison Avenue." He wants the Star to lean almost solely on circulation revenue provided by readers willing to pay a quarter at newsstands or supermarkets...
...item that caused the biggest storm among consumers last year-lean red beef-has lately stayed remarkably stable in price. That is because the nation's meat supply in general has been large ever since early last fall, when ranchers and feed-lot operators rushed to sell animals held off the market during the so-called summer meat freeze. Now that livestock is dwindling, and the cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost...
...tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...
Ever since their "fight of the century" encounter three years ago, Frazier and Ali have experienced some pretty lean times. For the flamboyant Ali, there has been the frustration of waiting for a rematch with Smokin' Joe, and more recently, the shattering of his reputation (and jaw) at the hands of Ken Norton. And since the last go-around, Frazier has undergone the drawn-out recuperation from the facial pummeling Ali gave him and, most recently, the humiliating de-regalization by George Foreman as heavyweight king...
...just taking up room in the closet." Frank Palermo, 27, of Rye, N.Y., notes that his Earth Shoes did what four years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains...