Word: asparagus
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...Asparagus Upstream. As a key U.S. waterway, the Ohio thrived; the distinctive old steamboat whistles gave way to the diesel-powered towboats' raucous horns, and each year the towboats nursed some 80 million tons of cargo up through the 46 locks. But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused...
...sell a cleanup program, shocked regional audiences and newspaper readers with crude, graphic facts. One quart in every gallon of Ohio water was raw sewage, equal to "700 dead horses floating by Cincinnati every day," he said. "We in Cincinnati can always tell when people in Pittsburgh have had asparagus for dinner...
With her main course of lobster Newburgh (frozen) she served asparagus tips in Hollandaise sauce (frozen), quick rice with mushrooms (canned) and hot rolls (heat and serve...
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). James Thurber's story Christabel, about a little girl whose dog eats all the heads off the asparagus in daddy's suburban garden...
...only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered through the audience. "Phantom Two to Phantom: when the speaker shouts 'Algerie,' you shout 'Franfaise!' Shout! Shout! Don't just stand there like sticks of asparagus...