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...star and sphere shapes, and Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs, which (or so kids will be told) stream from the mouth of a "computer-type monster" named Cecil when his "funny bone" is tickled. New brands of presweetened cereals frequently have a short life: Post's Pink Panther Flakes, Quaker Oats' Quake Quangaroos and General Mills' Baron von Redberry have all been introduced and then dropped in the past four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Breakfast Bestseller | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...rather reticent in talking about their recent sales successes. Reason: a Federal Trade Commission investigation that began in 1972 and is likely to wind up in a few months. The FTC is seeking to determine whether Kellogg's, General Mills, General Foods (which markets Post cereals) and Quaker Oats have monopolized the market by flooding it with similar brands and advertising them on a scale that smaller competitors cannot match. The FTC, in other words, suspects that the competition is all a lot of puff; to the cereal makers, it seems only too real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Breakfast Bestseller | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...loss, which left the Crimson's Ivy record at 0-3, didn't come until the final duels of the day when an outclassed epee squad proved unequal to the Quaker task...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Quaker Fencers Slash Crimson, 15-12 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

Last week, the Bulldogs handed Princeton its only Ivy League loss in a 17-16 squeaker; earlier this year Princeton stomped all over the Crimson, 31-7. Last Saturday, Yale warmed up by clobbering Penn, 43-4, the same Quaker team that had gone down to the last match with the Crimson before bowing out, 20-16. To sum it all up, Harvard's chances against Yale did not look good...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Give Powerful Yale a Scare, But Bulldogs Survive Upset Bid, 21-16 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

...Quaker coach Dave Micahnik, who complained to the ref about point calls in virtually every bout, remained angry even when the match was over and his team...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Quaker Fencers Slash Crimson, 15-12 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

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