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...stage, that enabled the crowd to see the candidate's face from half a mile away. Dressed in a gray flannel suit and sporting fashionably long hair, González called the election "a plebiscite, which confronts the people with a choice between a Socialist government or a vacuum, because no other serious alternative has been offered to the citizens of Spain...
Other companies, large and small, report phenomenal new interest in their products. The packaging group of giant Anchor Hocking Corp. (1981 sales: $953 million) has been flooded with calls for its various lines of vacuum seals for glass food jars since the Tylenol tragedy. "Customers have even come down to the plant to speed up their orders," notes Senior Vice President Vincent Naimoli. PCM Corp. of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (1981 sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that...
...management-consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, which has been studying the problem, advocates the wider application of several safety methods now used on some grocery products. They include the tight plastic bands or shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars, and baby-food "pop tops" that bulge visibly once opened. The single most effective form of protection for drugs, according to the Little research, would be blister packages like those currently used for SmithKline's cold medicine Contac...
Question 1 on the ballot would remove present constitutional provisions preventing the use of state government revenue for private schools. Massachusetts laws are currently much stricter than federal constitutional codes, and this referendum would merely make state rules consistent with national policy. In a vacuum, the proposal would seem rational, since private schools in the Commonwealth often provide a better education, and since carefully constructed tax breaks could help poorer families give this opportunity to their children...
...there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations of all things...