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...selection of identical cuts of lean, bright, red, nonaged beef in good and commercial grades and of choice beef-marbled, dark red and well-aged. Without price tags or grade stamps to guide them, more than two-thirds picked the poorer beef. Though such tests cause cowmen to snort contemptuously about women shoppers and "supermarket cattle," they have also caused them to worry. If women shoppers prefer the poorer grades that look fresher and leaner, then cattlemen will breed lean meat...
This is the sort of confidence that Sherman Adams can inspire, both from below and from above. He has no greater admirer than the President. When the political demands for Adams' removal go up-Ike is likely to snort: "The trouble with those people is they don't understand integrity." And once, to a friend, President Eisenhower paid Adams the highest compliment at his command. "The only person who really understands what I am trying to do," said the President of the U.S., "is Sherman Adams...
...figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When one old boy claims St. Patrick for a Protestant, when another argues evolution, because monkeys, like men, are fond of beer, everything starts coming alive...
...bull market reacted with a snort and a charge last week to the cheery news of stock splits and mergers. By week's end it had smashed records across much of the board. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials zoomed closer to the magic 500 mark, shot up four points to close out the week at 487.45 and an alltime high. After a slow start, railroads picked up 1½ points on the final day to close at 164.28. Only utilities failed to make headway...
...week's end Johnson's staff was bundling up newspaper clips for shipment to the hospital, while their employer (still, said the doctors, seriously ill), with a contemptuous snort at his in-bed accessories, was getting up to use a portable commode...