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Despite the growth- or perhaps because of it- the Coop was watching its profits and members' rebates grow smaller and smaller. Coop officials resolved to shore up the Society...
WHEN I was young, I would go on one-day excursions from my home in southeastern Wisconsin to the mysterious gateway city of the midwest, Chicago, via the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Winding through the empty stretches of wooded farmlands, the train boomed into the quiet and respectable north shore suburbs of Forest Hills, Glencoe, Northbrook, Wilmette and Evanston and as the density of houses and street corner drugstores began to thicken, my father would lean over and say, "Get your ticket ready. We'll be coming to Chicago any minute...
Cecil the seasick sea serpent swept to a Scituate shore Sunday and successfully stank up the surrounding sand...
...Station met with him to sound off their gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail. Zumwalt immediately ordered aides to arrange a change of duty. As he stepped from the stage, the sailors rose and cheered. A tall petty officer blocked his path. "Thank you, Admiral," he told Zumwalt, "for treating us like people...
...best-known Z-gram sets a goal of 15 minutes as the maximum time any sailor should have to wait in any line for anything. Others expand liberty for men in port, permit them to wear civilian clothes at all shore installations, create a pilot program to fly their wives and children (at their own expense) to ports where their ships stay. Another offers a Pentagon computer to match up sailors wishing to exchange duty stations; men used to have to engineer their own swaps. Z-gram 35 permits beer-vending machines in enlisted men's quarters and alcoholic...