<ARTICLE>                     5
<LEGEND>
  This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from our 
Form 10-Q for the twenty-six week period ended November 23, 1997, and is 
qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
       
                                  
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