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...School districts are thus faced with the choice of either hiking prices or slimming down portions; many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
...hours of queuing do not begin to satisfy the shopper's needs. In the first place, purchases are limited by a strict rationing system that allows the average Pole a monthly allotment of only 6½ Ibs. of meat, 2 Ibs. of sugar, 2 Ibs. of flour, 10 oz. of detergent, twelve packs of cigarettes and a pint of vodka. That, as a gray-haired Warsaw pensioner wryly notes, is "too little to live on and too much to die from...
...effort has been guided by Hollywood Producer Robert Evans, 51 (The Godfather, Chinatown and Popeye). Evans has never worked in TV before. But then, he has never faced so special a challenge. In July 1980 Evans pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to agreeing to buy 5 oz. of cocaine for $19,000. Judge Vincent Broderick deferred judgment, offering Evans a chance to wipe his record clean after a year's probation. In return, said Broderick, "I want you to use your unique talents where others have failed in this horrible thing of drug abuse by children...
Leading the assault on the bar is Soft-soap, which is made by Minnetonka, Inc., a Minnesota toiletries manufacturer. Soft-soap sells for about $1.50 for a 10½-oz. bottle that is the equivalent of five bars of soap. Minnetonka currently has about half of the liquid soap market, with Jergens and Yardley its main competitors. The Minnesota company has invested $6 million to advertise its hand cleaner as "soap without the soapy mess." Says Vice President and General Manager Wallace Marx, formerly director of new products at Pillsbury: "People are tired of messy soap bars that just melt...
...squandering proceeds apace. In 1939 MGM spent $1.2 million to make The Wizard of Oz; in 1981 Orion Pictures has devoted $17 million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays...