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...that. With such prestigious companies as P. Lorillard, Kimberly-Clark, Minute Maid, Alcoa and Mennen already signed up for the new adventure, housewives in test areas will soon be finding a bonus of flashy blue and gold Gift Star certificates tucked into or onto everything from baby powder to potato chips. Cold sufferers who grapple for that first sheet of Kleenex, for example, will have to watch out for the coupon imprinted on the pull-out tab. Developed after a two-year study, the coupons will cost companies 1¼? for five (after a $9.500 initiation fee per product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Stamps & More Stamps | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Forgotten Potato. He has aid. On one program he interviews Astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvard and Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell, expertly drawing both men into areas of their field that cannot help but fascinate laymen. Morrison thinks Shapley is hopelessly conservative when he says that there must be 100 million places in the universe that could support life. Morrison thinks there must be 100 million such places right here in our own galaxy. Shapley, for his part, seems to think the earth is a small and forgotten potato anyway. "On this little planet around a run-of-the-mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Professor Garroway of 21-Inch U. | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...back to. An advance party that returned to Tristan last August reported that the volcano had ruined most of their houses, killed all their sheep, and destroyed the fish-freezing plant where many earned their living. But there were still fish in the sea, enough land for their potato crop, and green grass for the cattle. The exiles could hardly wait to leave. For though they had found good jobs and a warm reception in "h'England," most islanders -who are descended from sailors shipwrecked on the island in the 19th century -just could not cope with progress. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tristan Da Cunha: Paradise Enow | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...presence of two distinct Negro groups here, the American Negro and the West Indian immigrant, also contributes to the lack of a cohesive Negro community "They are as different as a white potato and a sweet potato and there is very little communication between the two groups. Any civil rights group working among Boston Negroes should be fully aware of this split...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Church Official Says City Has Poor Integration Record | 12/10/1962 | See Source »

...would those doctors like a beautiful meal of roast beef and gravy, asparagus, baked potato and coffee, all served ice-cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1962 | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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