Word: supermarket
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...HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET (211 pp.)-Randall Jarrell-Atheneum...
This year, as he hit the political comeback trail, an early aspirant to the governorship of California, Dick Nixon set out to patch his relations with the press. He smiled as readily at reporters as he did at supermarket crowds. An aide carefully took pictures of him clasping the hands of assorted reporters and sent each autographed copies. When Nixon's book, SMC Crises, was published, the candidate sent inscribed volumes to political reporters all over the state...
Barrels in the newly opened Habana Supermarket sprout stalks of green sugar cane; others are filled with hot peppers, avocados, rice and black beans. Spanish-language newspapers and magazines abound on the newsstands, and the air is pungent with the aroma of steaming black coffee. The sight of Cuban women in hip-hugging skirts and slacks is savored by Latin loungers on every streetcorner. Tickets for the bolita, an illegal lottery, are discreetly sold under the counter. The scene might well be Havana's Prado. But it is actually downtown Miami...
...years ago, the bespectacled little boss of a three-man wholesale bakery in Chicago was laughed out of the head offices of a Midwest supermarket chain for suggesting that the chain sell his coffee cakes at 79? apiece instead of the then standard 29?. Today, the boss of a 584-man concern that grosses more than $30 million a year, the little baker is so busy selling his high-priced goods that he is currently equipping his major food brokers with computers to process an endless torrent of orders from customers across the nation-including the once skeptical supermarket chain...
...daughters. In undergraduate days at Harvard he sometimes submerged his restlessness in speed; he was flagged down once by Maine police for racing 80 m.p.h. on the Maine Turnpike; another time troopers caught him speeding on a Connecticut parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career in finance. But first, he wanted one real fling. Graduating cum laude in 1960, Mike spent six months in the Army...