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Automatic Strippers. Besides fresh meat, Oscar Mayer & Co. offers under its brand name 135 varieties of sausages and some 70 other processed-meat products, notably bland luncheon cuts and wieners (Mayer & Co. will accept the word frankfurter-but hot dog is taboo). Since 1954, in an industry traditionally plagued by meager returns, it has also squeezed out more profit than any other leading meat packer: 2.38% of sales in 1967, v. an industry-wide average...
...Americans enjoy punishing ourselves so much with our own criticism. This is a pretty good land. I am not saying you never had it so good. But that is a fact, isn't it?" Lady Bird made a similar point, telling a B'nai B'rith luncheon: "We don't have to spend our time on a collective psychiatrist's couch...
...foretaste of the campaign to come, the President zipped from his Texas ranch to Minneapolis to Washington with little advance notice. From now until November, this will be the pattern. As one Democratic official noted, "Wherever there's a luncheon or dinner when the President is in flight, there you might get an unscheduled speaker." Back in the capital, he adroitly dominated the headlines. He deployed lieutenants to key primary states. He delivered four tough speeches on the Viet Nam war in six days...
...office. He offered Johnson impossible terms for reconciliation (see box). Through an old friend, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, Kennedy told the White House of his final decision to run. On Friday, Kennedy took a brief recess, flew to Long Island to serve as official fall guy at a club luncheon. Kennedy took the ribbing, managed to ignore a belly dancer's gyrations while studying his notes...
...were among its loyal clientele; even today, the Fords and Rockefellers wouldn't dream of staying anywhere else. Greek shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower or mingle with the chic luncheon crowd in the garden restaurant, nibbling lobster souffle or "Tournedos Plaza Athénée" smothered in foie gras. The hotel's 50 suites and 200 rooms, priced from $15 to $100 a night, are looked after by 450 employees, its dining room served by 45 cooks...