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American has cut the 4? cost of laundering each washroom towel by switching from cloth to paper. By eliminating the more expensive blue cloth towels and going to all white, Eastern is saving $10,000 a year. The line has also adopted a unisex philosophy in passing out toy pins: formerly the wings given to girls were marked "Stewardess" and those given to boys were stamped "Pilot." Now they say "Eastern Air Lines." Savings: $9,000 a year...
SUMNER REDSTONE knew he mustn't let them think him flustered. Christ, he thought to himself, no wonder Pusey's throwing in the towel. For every time Sumner managed another sentence, the crowd before him roared with laughter. For the life of him, Sumner just couldn't understand it. Was this then what Harvard had come to? Sumner could feel himself beginning to sweat. If there were only some way of short-circuiting the laughter, of turning it against itself. But Sumner could see no way out, and just kept on plowing headlong through the introductory remarks that had been...
...They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that sent the Argentine to the canvas. Bonavena struggled up at the count of eight, and Ali decked him again. At that point, Bonavena's corner tossed in the towel. No one saw it, and Oscar wobbled to his feet to be dropped again by an Ali flurry. The three knockdowns constituted an automatic T.K.O. for Ali. Afterward, Ali allowed that Oscar was "the toughest fighter I ever met." Oscar reciprocated. "You no chicken," he told Ali. "Frazier...
...capacity crowd in the Garden roared as Ali followed with a sharp right left combination to the jaw which again felled the gutty Bonavena for a count of four. As he was getting the mandatory eight-count, Bonavena's corner tossed a towel into mid-ring...
Worse still would be the news that he had been reclassified a Cetus, a sun sign that points to no personality traits whatever and cannot be found, embossed or appliquéd, on a single charm bracelet, watch fob, dish towel or shower curtain. Nonetheless, such a possibility now exists. So says Steven Schmidt, whose book, Astrology 14 (Bobbs-Merrill; $4.95), not only shifts the old signs to different dates but also adds two more constellations to the Zodiac...