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Last week Callaghan discussed Britain and the world as he sees it from his new vantage point with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, TIME Managing Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald and London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. Excerpts...
Flesh has the profile of the Indian on a nickel and a degree from the Wharton School of Finance. He is also the owner of a Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a Travel Inn, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, a Cinema I, a Cinema II, a Mr. Softee ice-cream stand and a Fotomat - "a Checkpoint Charlie, a Mandelbaum Gate thing, a booth in the open center of a shopping mall...
...hunters, boaters, construction teams and farmers ranging far from homes and telephones. The first CB license was not granted until 1947. In the next quar ter-century, only 850,000 CB licenses were issued. Then came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television news picked up the story, and the rest is hysteria...
...election year 1976, the campaign button is becoming an endangered species, set back by high costs (up to a nickel a button) and competition from other forms of political advertising. "Television has made the biggest cut into our business," laments Frank Boston, a button manufacturer in Illinois. Now orders are 5,000 to 10,000 a whack, compared with as high as 100,000 in better button days. Another manufacturer, William Crookston of Los Angeles, is pinning his own hopes on producing buttons for fast food chains to distribute to youthful customers. Future generations may well ponder what turned...
...them Levi Strauss, use the system primarily to monitor depart-ment-by-department copying costs, but Leopold sees it mainly as a money saver. Says he: "Companies don't leave the petty-cash box sitting in the lobby, but each time the copier is used, it takes another nickel off the bottom line." Then again, bosses eager to save those nickels may have to reflect that many employees would accept controls on copiers about as eagerly as they would meters on the water fountain...