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...largest margin accounts at Stix & Co., a prestigious St. Louis brokerage house. While investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission looked on, a bank official and an officer of Stix turned matching keys in time-honored fashion. But when the box was removed, it contained a pouch filled with back issues of the Wall Street Journal. Securities worth some $36 million were missing...
Another entree: a la Carte-brand foods from Kraft. They are single-serving main dishes, like beef burgundy or creamed chicken, which are neither frozen nor canned but packed and vacuum-sealed in a new kind of aluminum and plastic pouch that can be stored on a shelf, popped into boiling water and eaten in five minutes. Kraft publicity identifies the market as: "Dual income families, working single parents and single people who lead active lives." Kraft is pleased with test-market results of a la Carte in half a dozen cities, and the product will soon be sold nationally...
...attempting to control the disease, doctors use drugs that suppress inflammation and the immune system. In severe cases, they must resort to surgery, cutting away diseased portions of bowel and then reconnecting the ends or creating a hole through the abdomen so wastes can be collected in a pouch. But even with such drastic measures, the disease may recur, necessitating more extensive operations...
...after Panorama roared through San Bernardino, Mail Carrier Kathy Holland stopped her Jeep at a charred and empty lot on Sepulveda Avenue. "God, that one's gone too," she sighed, as she returned yet another packet of mail to her pouch. An engineer who came back to sift through the ashes of his home found his Thanksgiving turkey, frozen before the fire, charred to a crisp in the freezer. Another victim, Tony Marzullo, attempted to salvage humor from tragedy by spraying a For Sale-Cheap sign on what used to be a freezer and propping it up on what...
Despite 25 years on the air and 7,070 shows in his pouch, Captain Kangaroo still keeps the kids hopping. "Ask George Burns when he's going to retire," laughs Bob Keeshan, 53, TV's one and always Captain. "When he retires, maybe then I'll think about it." Keeshan celebrated the show's silver anniversary last week in New York along with his family, his cast and some former guest stars. Naturally no Kangaroo court would be complete without the Captain's steadfast companion for a quarter-century, Hugh ("Lumpy") Brannum, better known...