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...Geritol. Whatever the reasons, Johnson's operational withdrawal eliminated any last-minute presidential pyrotechnics in a campaign that was remarkably short of fireworks. Nixon, who stumped for nearly 100 Republicans in 32 states, drummed away at the President's Viet Nam policy and his "rubber stamp" Congress, but neither pitch particularly roused his audiences. Vice President Hubert Humphrey encountered such apathy everywhere he went that he finally blurted to a listless Manhattan audience: "Get with it, will you? I'm going to get you some Geritol." At a traditional "bean feed" rally in St. Paul...
Ready to Drop. Because stamps are a nuisance to handle-and cost about 2% of sales-many retailers are happy to give them up when the competition does. The Georgia Association of Petroleum Retailers says that the percentage of stamp-giving filling stations in the state has fallen from about 35% to less than 25% over the past six years. In some Florida markets, 80% of the stations have abandoned stamps...
...Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the role stamps - as well as their trickier cousins, prizegiving promotional games - play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant...
Confusing the Stories. On the shop pers' level, the anti-stamp crusade has grown even more spirited. Last week, 100 women and children gathered in an Anaheim, Calif., stadium for a "stamp burning" and fed a bonfire with super market bingo tickets, game cards and trading-stamp books - though most of them were empty...
California's Blue Chip Stamp Co. got singed in quite another way. A suit against Blue Chip by 11,000 gas stations, charging the company with misrepresentation and monopoly, hit the headlines simultaneously with news on the failure of another stamp outfit, Thrifty Green. Confusing the stories, women stormed Blue Chip redemption centers in the unwarranted fear that their stamps would soon be worthless. The run at one Sacramento center was such that security guards had to hold off the mobs while a fresh supply of merchandise could be trucked...