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...variety of new products, services and jobs is growing up around the thriving catfish industry. Ralston Purina and other manufacturers have developed special catfish foods. Several firms are experimenting with pumps, mechanical feeders and harvesters, and there is a race to develop the best machine to behead, skin and eviscerate catfish. "Chip" Farmer and his neighbors in Dumas, Ark., have opened the nation's first catfish-processing plant, a cooperative that will package 900,000 Ibs. of fish this year. Restaurant chains specializing in farm-grown catfish are opening up in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. In time, the taste...
...while his mind was on something else-probably quitting time. Katharine Ross, Dustin Hoffman's sidekick in The Graduate, plays Duke's daughter with an understandable lack of enthusiam. A few more parts like this and she'll be about as well remembered as Vera Hruba Ralston...
Because aluminum alloy is also stiffer than steel, top players who have used the new racket claim to get better control on volleys, lobs and drop shots. "The ball doesn't fly off the surface as it does with steel," says the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston who, along with South Africa's Cliff Drysdale, plans to use the aluminum racket on this year's pro tour...
...insist that there is a little of the gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument more than 80% of it on television. Accounting for some 75% of the advertising dollars were: General Foods (Gaines and Top Choice-$11.5 million), Ralston Purina (Chow-$11 1 million), Quaker Oats (Puss 'n Boots Ken-L Ration-$9,000,000), Carnation (Friskies-$4.2 million), and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Alpo-$4,000,000). Ten years ago, the entire industry spent only $21.2 million on advertising...
...Both Ralston and Stolle have worked hard at improving techniques since they turned pro-Ralston has added more spin to his service, Stolle has shortened his backswing on ground strokes. Both agree that they are playing better tennis now because they are working on an above-the-table cash basis. Simply enough, says Ralston: "It's worth a lot more money to go all the way than to be eliminated before the final round...