Coffee, oranges, and baseball strike fraught with consumer shifts
The piece argues that substitutes replace pricey goods like coffee and orange juice after supply shocks and price spikes. It notes how consumers switch to tea, milk, or tomato juice, and could endure for years. It then critiques the baseball strike, blaming combined greed of players and owners and predicting lasting damage to attendance and loyalty.
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Florida
Exxon
Mobil
Standard Oil
Florida Citrus Growers Association
America
Reggie Jackson
Pete Rose
Catfish Bunter
Joe
Montana State Teachers College
Nolan Ryan
Nolan Yan
Ball Park
Oil demand to fall for third straight year in 1981
A San Francisco meeting of the IPAA supply-demand committee forecasts U S oil consumption dropping about 3.9 percent in 1981 to 16.4 million barrels daily and continuing into early 1982 due to conservation, prices, fuel-switching and more efficient cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
Independent Petroleum Association of America
San Francisco
IPAA
PAA
U.S
Showboat on CBS prompts early time slot complaint
Dear Dick Kleiner notes that Laulé Lord Fauntleroy aired late on CBS, fondly recalls its quality, and asks why prime time children’s programs are scheduled after 8 pm. Reader K Thompson of Vancouver, Washington wonders why networks lost the 7 to 8 pm window due to FCC changes years ago.
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Dear Dick
Laulé Lord Fauntleroy
CBS
K. Thompson
Vancouver
Wash
Bane
F.C.C
Roller Ball soundtrack and Bach themed cues explored
Readers inquire about the Rollerball soundtrack composer and theme music. Debates arise over Bach and Pravins influence with albums credited to Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony. Also notes on Van Johnson and Ethel griffies life, and a Green Hornet top location mystery sparked by fan recollections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bach
Tom Lasker
Andre Previn
London Symphony
Oscar telecast tribute to Nicholas Brothers stalls fans
Letters from readers discuss Oscar telecast footage of Harold and Fayard Nicholas and query names of dancers in old films. Another reader asks whether James Stacy in My Kidnapper My Love is the same Lancer actor and notes his injuries from a motorcycle accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ware
Trenton
Nicholas Brothers
Harold and
Fayard
Tin Pan Ailey
Ives
James Stacy
Dames Stacy
Lancer
Kay Johns
Killeen
Texas
Jim Stacy
Innovative furniture in America shines at Smithsonian tour
Alexandria designer Peter Danko creates a single-sheet laminated wood chair that the Museum of Modern Art embraced for study. The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service highlights gradual tech shifts in furniture design, from portability and multiuse to new materials, with experts noting U.S. makers lagging behind Japan, Germany, and Italy in innovation.
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Windsor
Peter Danko
Alexandria
Danko
Museum of Modern Art
New York City
Smithsonian Institution
America
Daoko
Cooper-Hexist Museum
Smithsonian
National Museum of Design
U.S. Patent Office
David Hanks
Russell Lynes
Eero Saarinen
Saarinen
Lynes
Hanks
Afcionado
U.S
Japan
Haty
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Robert C.reid
Robert C. Reid
Bowie Blade
Reid
Kleiner
Dwyer
Maxfield
Nan
Cornelius
Three Mile Island
United States
Cornelius J. Dwyer
United Press International
Associated Press
Dick Kleiner
Hollywood
van Johnson
Parker
Las
Ethel Griffies
Griffies
England
Green Hornet
Fuillaing
Kate
Achaea
Frank Aletter
Bill Bixby
N.J.H
Cogan Station
Paul Bixby
The
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