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...seize the colonists' military supplies. Di Carlo's trip will be the first major commemorative event since the U.S. Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities to the tiniest hamlets, and spawn thousands of speeches, parades, pageants, school plays, fairs, exhibitions, TV shows, postage stamps, buttons, T shirts and Jefferson knows what else before the party officially ends...
...realize that bargains are fewer is open to question. Says Analyst Kenneth Sanders of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis: "The company is doing better, but it still has a long road ahead." Many of the 3,680 A. & P. stores are still too small, though the company is closing its tiniest outlets and building 80 big supermarkets in this year's first half. A. & P. also continues to limit brand variety on its shelves, in part because of its heavy commitment to its own private house labels. This deficiency is most obvious in A. & P.'s relatively skimpy line...
SOME PEOPLE HAVE lofty positions handed to them as part of their birthright. Others have to push aside barriers to be successful, keeping stiff upper lips through discouraging moments and elbowing their way through the tiniest openings. Unfortunately both of these types usually reach their promised lands at the expense of their humanity...
...being canceled; gasoline-short service stations are temporarily shutting down; and commuter-and school-bus schedules are being pared for lack of fuel. For the first time since World War II, there is serious talk of rationing gasoline and home-heating oil. Meanwhile, from Capitol Hill to the tiniest town hall, in board rooms and living rooms, Americans hastened to make up for lost time in meeting what could become the most serious economic threat to face the nation since the Depression...
However the battle might end, it was already clear that the Arabs had never fought better against the Israelis. No longer were they so likely to be dismissed as powerless and posturing giants too weak to defeat the tiniest of neighbors. The extraordinary flowering of Arab machismo was dynamically expressed by Nasser's successor, President Anwar Sadat, in a speech before Egypt's People's Assembly (see box page 29). "No matter what happens in the desert, there has been a victory that cannot be erased," said Sadat. "According to any military standard, the Egyptian armed forces...