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...aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that tighter eligibility rules instituted by Block mean that the average family of four on food stamps receives only $39 a week, rather than the maximum figure used by Block. The Administration has proposed cutting the funding...
...England, France, Portugal, Italy. I discovered many of those places while serving in the Merchant Marine during World War II. I was on North Atlantic and Mediterranean runs, among others, and there were always opportunities to get away into the countryside, where people welcomed me. Even in wartime, they ate and drank well." Demarest has been back to Europe almost every year in the past three decades. But he has also enjoyed traveling to and writing in TIME about more exotic places: the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1979, the Caribbean's pristine Lesser Antilles...
About four centuries after Shakespeare wrote, "Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath," Mose Coleman harvested the first Vidalia onion, ate it and found, among other things, that his breath would not fell a mule. That was in 1931, and Coleman, who is now 82, took his onion to a buyer for a food-store chain. "I pulled out my onion and my knife," he recalls, "and I ate it there in front of him. He'd never seen anything like it. There wasn't any tears coming out of my eyes...
About 75 students have been accepted off the wait list so far, computed to last year's 89 bitten students ate still left hanging on a special summer wait list. For those who do not end up joining their peers in the Class of '87, the College has guaranteed a slot in the Class of '88. This is the first year such a promise has been made...
...cities and towns all across the U.S. and Canada, fans camped out in front of the 1,002 theaters showing Jedi. Some were wearing the costumes of their favorite characters, from the furry Chewbacca to wise old Obi-Wan Kenobi. Many families ate in relays so that someone would always be there to hold a place in line. In Los Angeles one fan even brought a TV set and a video-recording machine so that he could watch Star Wars No. 1 while waiting...