Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week beef boycott be organized to resist meat increases, which amounted to 110% at an annual rate for hamburger in the past three months. But beef producers retort that this will only aggravate the long-run shortage by discouraging the building of new beef herds. One Georgia grocery-store manager reports on his customers' switching to cheaper meats: "They're not boycotting beef, they just can't afford...
...preference for Augusta Masters champions; Richard Nixon was fond of Super Bowl coaches. And then last week there was Jimmy Carter calling Boston after watching the 83rd running of the best-known U.S. marathon. White House operators tracked down three-time Winner Bill Rodgers at his running-goods store in Brighton. "Hi," said jogging Jimmy, offering congrats and asking about other finishers. The President also invited Rodgers to a White House dinner next month honoring visiting Japanese Premier Masayoshi Ohira. When Carter mentioned his own daily jaunts, Rodgers applauded in return: "You're doing a good job as a runner...
...mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical cog in the intelligence machine, but he spins a little out of synch. Trying to be his own man, Redford holes up in the apartment of a woman he kidnapped in a sporting goods store (didn't your always hope the man holding a gun in your back was Robert Redford?). Two world powers battle for the Condor, while he humps with a temperamental photographer. Once they catch up, Three Days of the Condor is a face-paced, carefully calculated thriller. Even Redford is convincing...
With acquisition in mind, a Toronto investment management company that has $380 million in cash from the sale of a Brazilian utility, found its billion dollar baby in a 5 and 100 store. The company, Brascan, Ltd., announced last week that it was offering $1.1 billion for F.W. Woolworth Co., one of the largest cash takeover bids ever...
...calling. In fact, he has organized gay dances that are held every three or four months in hotel ballrooms, drawing crowds of as many as 130. But, he says, "there are people who meet at our dances who will avoid each other if they cross paths in a hardware store. It can still be a disaster to be identified as gay in Mankato...