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...that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
...investigation uncovered the source of an outbreak of intestinal illness in Sioux City, Iowa. After learning that all 250 people affected had eaten at one restaurant, CDC officers continued questioning until they discovered that all had ordered some kind of sliced meat. Further investigation led them to a meat slicer that was contaminated with salmonella, a particularly virulent organism that lives and multiplies in the digestive tract...
...time he was 18, Edward Leo McMahon Jr. had been a pitchman for eight years. He was the genuine article, too, peddling merchandise on the sidewalks: "Folks, I'm gonna show you the Morris Metric Slicer. Two dollars is the price on the box, but forget the two dollars. I'm talking about one dollar, and I'm throwing in the onion slicer and the juice extractor." When Ed talked, the folks listened. And when they listened, they usually bought...
...cook, he is also a fine salesman. Hausfrauen who have watched him operate in his gleaming white, gadget-spangled kitchen have developed statistically measurable yearnings for what West Germans know as an "American kitchen." Once, after he casually made use of a vegetable slicer called Schneidboy, sales of the gadget soared to 1,500,000. Author of three cookbooks, Wrilmenrod is swamped with offers for testimonials, but insists he is very choosy. "Not even for 100,000 marks would I endorse a recipe using margarine." That, Clemens feels, would destroy the glamour of his show for the audience, whom...
...President's modified program was, of course, the only possible one. With military and civilian budgets suddenly looking more muscular than corpulent, the most optimistic budget slicer began to wonder how Eisenhower could cut more than three billions now. Even this cut, by no means filling in the tax hole, would drain needed funds from foreign aid, the metals stockpiling program, and public works...