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Grocery stores such as Broadway and Sage's have not kept any count of the used containers on their hands; Broadway General Manager John Lichter simply calls the procedure "a godawful mess." "It's a very taxing proposition for us, "notes Stephen J. McCaffrey, manager of One Potato, Two Potato. "We have very limited storage space, hardly enough for incoming deliveries, let alone the returnables...
...willing victims of Hometown Food Nostalgia and confess to lifetime allegiances to such special American foods as the creamy caramels made by the nuns of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa; the thick potato chips fried in pure lard from Dieffenbach's in Womelsdorf. Pa. and the puffy Common Crackers from the Vermont Country Store in Rockingham...
DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand of potato chips as the head of the Dallas-based Frito-Lay Co. (1961-65), but couldn't stop with just one and kept building and merging until he was board chairman (1965-71) of the giant conglomerate PepsiCo; of cancer; in Dallas...
...that Government in recent years has been more a part of the problem than part of the solution in many ways. No, I haven't changed my mind in those ways. I think, yes, there are perceptions when you get in. I know that out on the mashed-potato circuit for many years, when I wasn't in office, I used to refuse to make certain criticisms-and I'm kind of grateful now-on the basis that only if you had access to all of the information that [a President] has are you qualified to come...
...earlier, on February 23, 1907. The Crimson announced plans for a Harvard track carnival. "The purpose of the carnival is to give all members of the University a chance to compete," the article said. The meet included interdormitory relay races and a shot-put event, as well as a potato race, a sack race, a pole-climbing competition and other less-than-standard track and field events. The Class of 1909 won the tug of war. The winter carnival became a popular annual event and was continued for many years...