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Since the airline strike began last month, it has developed into a logistical nuisance and an economic drag. Last week it also became a political hot potato. By turning down the agreement worked out for them by their own national leadership under President Johnson's scrutinous eye, 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists put the U.S. Government in an uncomfortable position. As has happened in the past with striking railroaders, the contract defeat left the Government no choice except to act. But in an election year, when politicians of all stripes are exceedingly sensitive about...
...ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated's second acquisition in 1966 (the other: E. Kahn's Sons of Cincinnati, a meat processor with sales of $45 million) and the 44th since Cummings organized the company 26 years ago. Now the U.S.'s fastest-growing food processor, Consolidated will...
Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...
...Practical. A potato-faced pug, noted mainly for his high threshold of pain and his mastery of the "upper-cup"-a left hook to an opponent's private parts-Chuvalo was ranked tenth among the World Boxing Association's top ten heavyweights. True, he had never been knocked down in 47 pro fights, but he had lost eleven, including three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take...
...little." But before adults crouch down in first-base position, they'd best reconcile themselves to being already out. For as soon as grownups catch on, it's time to change-and there goes the Philly Dog, right out in left field with the Slop, the Mashed Potato, the Batman and the Jerk...