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...come in vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, coffee and coconut flavors, has surged from 1,500 to 45,000 a day, and they are tickling taste buds in 18 states, from California to Massachusetts. That popularity has come despite a price as rich as the taste: from $1.45 at a supermarket to $2 at a New York City peddler's cart for a single bar. Says Caryn Salzman, a Chicago secretary: "They're expensive, but they're worth it. They're heavenly...
...year-old General Secretary of the Communist Party, strolling around Moscow, laughing heartily with workers, shaking hands. Now he was sharing a cup of tea in a young couple's apartment, now vigorously pressing the flesh in a factory, now touring a hospital, a classroom, even a supermarket. In all, Gorbachev spent about eight hours last week on photographed walkabouts through the highly industrialized Proletarsky (Proletarian) district of southeastern Moscow, extolling the virtues of hard work and the rewards of initiative. Past Soviet leaders have made similar rounds, but. Western diplomats noted, few have brought so much vigor...
...that caters to this craving is called Soda Stream. Fitted with a carbon dioxide cartridge, the shiny plastic appliance fizzes tap water into salt-free club soda. Adding flavor concentrates will make instant plain or diet cola, tonic, root beer or the popular fruit sodas. Compared with supermarket soda prices, which can soar as high as 50¢ for a 12-oz. brand-name can, Soda Stream at 15¢ per bottle is a bargain. The initial investment of $39.95 buys the mechanism and other necessary accessories...
That may be true even though Coke could conceivably surrender first place to Pepsi in the cola wars. With two Cokes on the shelf, the supermarket purchase share of each might be lower than what Pepsi can muster. Coke is unlikely to worry though, since the combined might of its dual entries will still be greater than Pepsi's. In this case, notes Jesse Meyers, publisher of Beverage Digest, "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole...
Today blacks constitute perhaps 60% of the country's total work force. There are black doctors, lawyers, bankers, supermarket managers, advertising executives, personnel managers. There are even a few black tycoons who have made fortunes in retailing and trading...