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Peter Paul, as any sweet-toothed tot knows, makes a bar of chocolate, coconut, corn syrup and sugar known as Mounds and another, with almonds added, called Almond Joy. What the kids may not care about is that Mounds and Almond Joy outsell even the Hershey bar among 100 candies. On the basis of these two products, Peter Paul Inc.-named for one of a group of Armenian immigrants who organized the company in 1919-made its way for years in a prosperous but unpretentious way. "They were a nice little business," says Zender today, "but they were reluctant...
...world events for years to come. Says one East European diplomat: "They desperately want something to crow about." Moscow's policymakers, who have historically gyrated between common sense and ideological intransigence, could swing toward a hard line. Or they could consult the box score of the last two decades, tot up the strikeouts of international mischief, and opt for cooperation instead...
...Empire desk aboard the Carronade, quickly jury-rigged an alternative system, known as the "bow and arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make sure, one officer stands on the bridge to double-check the course of the rockets. Last week, as McCoy's Navy plastered everything from ammo dumps to Viet Cong villages in support of Saigon...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...
...thoughts amount to so many aphorisms. She sees a "new movement in women's rights tied tot he struggle for Negro rights, a kind of human revolution." The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, she reminds people, brought together women who were refused seats at an anti-salvery convention in London. Mrs. Friedan foresees "institutional improvements" that will "help women avoid martyr-like choices;" business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will...