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...from Fresno, Calif., for his first reunion since graduation, Procter and Gamble Executive Jack Simpson claimed convincingly that he was delighted to be there, jostling hip to hip with dozens of others under a dripping canvas before the bonfire finally got lit. "It's marvelous," said he, and went on to muse on time's familiar way of shrinking one's childhood world: "When I was a kid, that Allegheny Bridge was the Golden Gate. Today I realized I could clear it with a 9-iron...
...news doctors typically make specific proposals for reform, and tend to regard newspapers more as packaged goods than as public-service institutions. Says Donald J. Morgan of GMA Research Corp. in Bellevue, Wash.: "We look at the newspaper as a product, just as we would something from Procter & Gamble...
...Beneficial $13,822,884 Caterpillar Tractor $13,741,103 Province of Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical $12,227,949 Aluminum Co. of America $11,865,565 Union Carbide $11,068,724 U.S. Steel $10,915,154 Kimberly-Clark $10,676,454 International Nickel of Canada $10,502,593 Procter & Gamble $10,376,375 Continental Group $9,939,553 Smith, Kline $8,946,86 Phillips Petroleum $8,918,217 Standard Oil of Indiana $8,913,351 Dome Petroleum $8,635,656 Gulf $8,538,075 Pennzoil $8,280,000 Kingdom of Norway $8,072,510 Bristol-Myers...
...Procter & Gamble's entry in the cheaper-Java derby, Folger's Flaked Coffee ($2.99 for a 13 oz. can), has no extenders but still yields 20% more brewed coffee per pot than ordinary ground varieties. The secret: the coffee is shaved into tiny flakes to increase the surface area that comes in contact with the hot water...
...Money. One possible compromise candidate is conservative Tennessee Senator William Brock, whose chief liability is that he was defeated for reelection. Some of Ford's Western supporters are suggesting Bryce Harlow, an ex-Nixon aide who is now Procter & Gamble's Washington vice president, but he has declined the post in the past. Other possibilities are John Sears, who managed Reagan's campaign but is considered more of a pragmatist than an ideologue, and Baker, who has described himself as philosophically closer to Reagan than to Ford...