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...They are a pleasant, easygoing group with their feet firmly planted on solid rock and enough jazz, blues and soul overtones to make the insistent Green Light, the confidential Bend Me, Shape Me, and the soul of Something You've Got and the slow rock sounds of Mind-rocker interesting, even hummable...
...almond ranches in California will provide Hershey with a source of cheaper nuts. Meanwhile, the company is test-marketing Hershey Chocolate Drink and a new candy bar called Rally. Will they be advertised? Not likely. "It's not necessary," says President Mohler, who keeps his grandfather's rocker in his office and frequently sways back and forth in it while he mulls over the changing times...
Waxing Sarcastic. He held his news conference in the Cabinet Room of the White House, seated in a rocker at the enormous mahogany conference table. When he was asked about rumors of other Cabinet-level resignations, he waxed sarcastic. "I know that some kids have been calling around some of your bureaus predicting that," he said, clearly referring to the Kennedy brothers. "Most of them are not as close to the situation as they might be-or might desire to be." Another newsman asked whether the "kids" were old enough to be Congressmen. "I didn't have any members...
...said with much encumbrance and ornament. The beauty of his design is that he leaves the chairs to talk for themselves. In fact, he forces them to do so, by arranging them in groups by kind and occasionally setting off a masterpiece alone, like the bentwood and black-leather rocker that is number 36 (see photo on page three). This chair, an attractive card tells us, was mass-produced in 1860. Now it sits displayed at the end of a long, stark white box against white board and a black wall...
...never did. Settling down to husband his fortune, he raised chickens, sat in his front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...