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...presidents and centralizing far-flung product research. He has a salesman's high hopes for several products that are test-marketed: Brim, a decaffeinated coffee; Master Blend, a mix of freeze-dried and spray-dried coffee that would cost less than either Maxim or Taster's Choice; Oven Top, a chicken or turkey dressing that can be cooked without a bird; and Soft-Swirl, a mousse dessert. Meanwhile Cook faces mandatory retirement in less than three years, and the company has to pick a president who will be his heir apparent for the chairmanship. "Obviously," says Cook, "that...
...been cut once. We have no heat. We get hot water once in a while. The wall is coming apart from the leaks. I've had a broken window for the past year. The kids sleep in their clothes. I use the stove and oven for heat, but the gas and electricity bills are very high. I had an electric heater once, but it was stolen...
...first week," she says, "you call home and say you ve got to work late but the meat-loaf is ready to go so why doesn't he just put it in the oven? Next week you call home and tell him you've left all the ingredients out on the counter and suggest he stir them together and put the loaf in the oven. The third week you call and say that everything is in the refrigerator and he knows how to put it together from last week. The fourth week...
...Sovex Inc. of Collegedale, Tenn. It caught on not only as a breakfast cereal served with milk and fruit, but also as a snack food eaten by itself and as a base for cookies. Since then, Sovex has enlarged its granola operation from a single pizza oven to a 20,000-sq.-ft. bakery plant with a capacity of 1,000,000 Ibs. a month. Sales in 1971: more than $1 million...
...There the primary pastime, as always, is sex. Furtive sex. Tainted sex. Hand-on-the-thigh-in-the-back-seat sex. Nice girls never let boys go "all the way," and nice boys never deflower a virgin. All the townsfolk are decent types, but the featureless landscape and the oven-like days render them insensible. Any diversion suffices; the torturing of a feeble-minded boy soon becomes no more than an evening's entertainment...