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...women using Clairol's Nice 'n Easy hair-coloring kits want to get some expert guidance on exactly how much tint to apply, free advice is as close at hand as the nearest telephone. They simply call up the toll-free 800 number listed on an instruction sheet in the package and ask. Clairol is one of a growing list of firms that use AT&T's system of toll-free 800 numbers to foster good consumer relations. Says Jack Shor, vice president for public relations at the New York-based hair care, cosmetics and beauty appliances...
...beans by force. As TV cameras whirred, Cryts replied, "I intend to remove my private property." Then the marshals and FBI agents, who made no secret of their sympathy for Cryts, obligingly stood aside while a tinworker from Kansas City jimmied a hole in the elevator's sheet-metal wall. With the marshals watching, the farmers spent two days hauling out Cryts' beans. When the farmers were finished, they repaired the sheet metal, repainted the elevator wall and neatly swept the grounds. Farmers around the country have since sold the beans on the open market, sending Cryts...
...almost didn't want my check," says Roxie. "He was worried that I was closing the account. We only had one card of everything, and now they threw two cards on us." "We started moving up in cars," adds Bill. From "a junker, tied together with a sheet," they progressed to a newer used car and then their first new Ford Galaxie in 1965. "Of course, all this was on time," says Bill. all this was on time," says Bill...
Computerized inventory control has proved especially helpful to heavy industries like steelmaking. More than simply keeping track of large stockpiles of raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone...
Dozens of sign-carrying demonstrators dodged rush-hour traffic in downtown Memphis to pass out leaflets to motorists. Ron Thomas, a clean-cut Memphis State University junior, wore a sheet and a homemade death mask for the event. "I call myself a Christian," he says, "and if I'm really serious about the religious commands of peace, then I felt I had to do something about nuclear weapons." At Yale, 1,000 people filled the university chapel to hear Evangelist Billy Graham, a very recent convert to the cause, denounce nuclear war as the ultimate sin. In Rochester, Mich...