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...that the nibbles that niggled most were such major items as increased medical costs (up in Atlanta 4.5% over last year) and dozens of minor expenses, e.g., shoeshines (up 10? to 35? in Sacramento) and haircuts (up 25? to $2 in San Francisco). Everywhere, middle-income families felt the pinch of such pressures as rising commuter fares, real estate prices, taxi taxes, pipe tobacco and cigar taxes, real estate taxes, school taxes, gasoline taxes. The state of Washington alone has new tax increases this year on liquor (5%), real estate rentals (.4%), business transactions (10%), and even a brand...
...bench's pinch-hitting is hovering around a woeful...
...conditioners, and 76% have music departments. But the stores are having second thoughts about their standardized and monotonous displays, efficient atmosphere. "We've probably done ourselves a disservice by packaging tomatoes," says Kroger President Joseph B. Hall. "I think a housewife would still like to be able to pinch a tomato before she buys, and maybe we should let her. It might spoil a few tomatoes, but we'd probably sell more in the long...
...they were married there, have never given it up. He likes trout fishing, golf (with luck, under 90), and singing hymns (he is a Presbyterian) and folk songs. He is an enthusiastic cook. Special ties: doughnuts, Pennsylvania Dutch coffeecake, and fluffy pancakes-for which his secret is a pinch of salt...
Arthur Radford, 63, four-star admiral (ret.), former chairman (1953-57) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one of the finest U.S. military minds, was recalled temporarily as a special Pentagon consultant to help pinch-hit for J.C.S. Chairman Nate Twining, who will be out at least another five weeks while recovering from lung-cancer surgery...