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Even with the promise of four more years of Nixonomics there is no reason to give the owners of Mama-Leone's a break. Save your money and walk up Cambridge Street to an Italian bakery and buy a loaf of bread and a dozen canoles...
...George's Smorgasbord House branch in the San Fernando Valley. He opened with 2 lbs. of salad, then reduced a chicken to rubble, inhaled two plates of roast beef, and washed it all down with milk. Then he thoughtfully wiped his plate clean with half a loaf of bread, paid his $2.50 check and left. (Inexplicably, he passed up dessert.) Jack LeFever, a vice president of Sir George, while denying that the huge customer was responsible, reports that most of the restaurants in the chain have since stopped advertising its all-you-can-eat come-on. "The policy remains...
...examine jars of jam that cost $1.15. They drink their coffee watered-down-because it costs $2 per Ib.-and pass up steaks that run $3 to $4 per Ib. for an indifferent cut. Even the rich, dark German bread in Limburg goes for an average of 60? a loaf. I asked one supermarket customer how he would vote on Nov. 19. "I am not yet sure," he replied. "I won't tell you what party I belong to, but I will say that I'm not sure I trust Barzel. I trust Brandt...
...meat, fish and poultry climbed even more. These prices have now risen 10.1% in the year since President Nixon proclaimed his temporary price freeze. As if things were not bad enough on the food front, the American Bakers Association reported that bread prices might rise 2? to 3? a loaf because of a shrinking supply of flour, caused by wheat sales to Russia...
...plan is a mixed package in more ways than one. For Cavett fans, a quarter of a loaf is probably better than none. The return of the volatile and engaging Paar to regular programming for the first time since 1962 is also a plus. But an enforced rivalry between Cavett and the man who gave him his first job in TV (as a writer on Paar's late-night talk show) could be mutually damaging. Moreover, ABC seems to be violating a basic tenet of TV-that viewers are creatures of habit. The competition from NBC's Johnny...