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...wants Lever to give up its right to make All, a detergent that Lever acquired from Monsanto a year ago. Lever argued that adding All's 5% of the U.S. market to other Lever detergents (Surf, Breeze, Wisk, etc.), which hold 16%, bolstered Lever in its battle against giant Procter & Gamble, which has 55% of all U.S. detergent sales. But the trustbusters held that All should not have been sold to any of the soap industry's Big Three-Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive or Lever. Said Justice Department Antitrust Chief Victor Hansen: "We aim to protect competition...
...heroine of this surf opera is 19-year-old Jordan Moore, a button-bright blonde girl who dreams of carving a career niche in the great stone face of Manhattan. When she hears that the "mass media" set spends its summers on Phoenix Island, Jordan signs on for a baby-tending stint with a one-child family named French-an experience that gradually turns into Operation Mad Ball...
...velvet; in the second from hot to cool, which is partly seasonal; in summer fiction they tend to be cool. There are also body-geography and sexual-topology students-erotic spelunkers of a sort. Since the modified screenplay distantly related to From Here to Eternity, fornication in the surf has become the desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image of suggestion, and when the waves keep on breaking in, all by themselves, you know what's happening. Among the orgasm symbols are the high-wind group, the fire group...
Just about the last place France expected to be troublesome was Tahiti. The largest island of French Polynesia, Tahiti, 2,600 miles southeast of Hawaii, spends most of its time dreaming under swaying palms while the surf breaks gently on the coral reefs. Generations of expatriates-from Melville to Robert Louis Stevenson to Gauguin-have fled to the islands seeking forgetfulness in the company of sunlit skies and black-haired amoral vahines...
Perhaps those left behind may prefer to spend an evening at one of the three House beach parties. Kirkland House is "featuring sand, surf, campfires and conviviality, cheer, and informal singing and guitar playing." Dunster will build "one large fire for those who do not wish to have their own somewhere on the great expanse of beach...