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Refiners could well have had additional reasons for seizing the first opportunity to cut wholesale prices. Fed up with high sugar costs, the Consumer Federation of America is staging a ten-day nationwide consumer boycott scheduled to end Dec. 10. Some supermarket chains, like Tradewell Stores Inc., which operates in California, Oregon and Washington, are urging customers not to buy sugar at all; in one week the chain's sugar sales dropped 75%, according to Tradewell President Al Thompson. Moreover, the fourfold increase in retail sugar prices so far this year has fattened company profits remarkably, but those profits...
...sixth year, the O.B. program offers ten-day wilderness orientation courses and three-day raft trips to executives and middle managers anxious to gain greater confidence and emotional security by mastering physical challenges. As Charles C. Gates Jr., president of the Denver-based Gates Rubber Co., explains the idea: "The brain doesn't work well if the body is dead. People need physical as well as mental challenges throughout their lives." Outward Bound President Joseph
Despite the hardships, each year some 600 executives sign up for O.B.'s raft trips and another 60 for the more grueling ten-day hikes. In many cases the tab, ranging from $200 to $400 per person, is picked up by the company. Eastman Kodak, IBM, Gates Rubber, Adolph Coors Co., a beer producer, and Martin-Marietta regularly pay the way for their management personnel. William Coors, president of Adolph Coors, has himself scaled canyons and run rapids on ten O.B. trips. Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp., has braved...
...more extreme example comes from the village of La Guardia, 20 miles east of Toledo, which every year celebrates a ten-day festival honoring the Niňo (boy) of La Guardia. The festival grew out of a charge that in 1488. local Jews had murdered an unnamed boy. who, says Sister Despina, also never existed. A trial ordered by Grand Inquisitor Torquemada resulted in the execution of some ten to 20 Jews. It was also part of the anti-Semitic campaign that led to the 1492 expulsion of all Jews from...
...belt pinching after feasts of roast lamb and pilaf, his legs a bit wobbly after trying them at Arab dancing, William Simon left the Middle East last week feeling justifiably tired but optimistic. The Treasury Secretary's hectic ten-day, four-country barnstorming had ended on the upbeat. Not only will Saudi Arabia take steps that could reduce world petroleum prices but that country will probably also invest much of its swelling surplus of petrodollars in U.S. Government securities...