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...prices ranging from 75? for a 4-oz. soft-whipped portion to $2.49 for a hard-packed pint, Tofutti is selling briskly from pushcarts and at custard shops and specialty stores almost all the way across the country. Strangely, it has not caught on yet in Southern California, normally a hotbed of food fads. But Tofutti is moving smoothly at chic Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and at Bloomingdale's in New York City. Haagen-Dazs, the designer-ice cream folks, will begin nationwide distribution to retailers later this month. On Wall Street, stock in Mintz's Tofu Time...
...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...
...beckoning with an eager checkbook. Of course, Indianapolisites will learn soon enough what price love demands: the average tab for a day at the Hoosier Dome this fall will be about $25. It the newest Colts lovers don't have that kind of money, they can always sell a pint of blood...
Teaming up with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000. Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core tech-Is noid." He temporarily abandoned computers for a year in the early 1970s for such nontechnical pursuits as acting in the school play, but he did not lose his touch for making money. While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped...
...recruited from the New York stage, kudos goes to: Jodie Foster, sensibly raunchy as the eldest Berry child; Rob Lowe, as her brother, who registers the dreamy horniness of adolescence; Lisa Banes as the most tolerant of mothers in a patriarchal family; and Jennie Dundas as Lilly, the half-pint-size author for whom life is just too short. These attractive actors often come close to embodying Irving's mes sage: the adhesives of blood and affection can help even a weird family stick together like Velcro. -By Richard Corliss...