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...preside over stacks of specialty foods that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
Alcoholic beverages are given more than any other gift, but tastes are becoming sophisticated. Where once the gift was a predictably expensive bottle of Scotch or bourbon, this year it is more likely to be a bottle or case of Chateau Haut-Brion or -Chateau La-fite-Rothschild. Wines have increased in a decade from 10% of Christmas orders to 35%, according to Samuel...
Harold Wilson gave Snow a Scotch and asked him how he'd feel about "being No. 2 to Frank Cousins in the Ministry of Technology. Of course I said yes. After all, one has talked so much about it one would feel a bit of a stinker not to have...
...astounding success of the California initiative could put ideas into other people's heads elsewhere. A united front of gluemakers, for example, might collect enough votes to ban the manufacture of Scotch tape. Chrysler could war on General Motors. Whichever collected the fewest votes would die a corporate death...
...become a darling of Wall Street by poking inquisitively into a bunch of unlikely products that stick, slip or scratch. Founded in 1902 to mine corundum for use in abrasive wheels, 3M struggled into the manufacture of sandpaper and then into masking tape. Its big breakthrough was the familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September, is a nonirritating bandage that comes off the skin without pulling...