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...veritable backyard supermarket," exults Vietmeyer, who has probably done as much as anyone to drum up the new enthusiasm for the winged bean. "From top to bottom," he explains, "it is all edible. The leaves are like spinach, the stems like asparagus, and you can eat the flowers and the tubers too. And after they are steamed or boiled, the seeds and pods taste like good mushrooms...
...Arabia supported both Egypt and the Sudan with huge cash flows, helping both countries to break with the Kremlin. And in 1976 Carter became president. Shocked by Carter's "hands off" policy in Africa--specifically Angola, and now the Horn--and determined to keep the Soviets out of their backyard, the Saudis and Iranians pushed Sadat to seek direct negotiations with Begin, rather than concede to the American effort of bringing the Soviets to the peace table at Geneva. Both realized the importance of a decisive U.S. policy and in light of Andrew Young's comment that the Cubans were...
...kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when he was finished...
...Johnny was soon up for a part in one of Helen's productions down at the local high school. He wanted a role as big as Brother Joey's, balked at taking second billing and toddled out of the show. He consoled himself with such pursuits as organizing backyard carnivals and starting a bowling alley in the basement with croquet balls and milk bottles (20¢ per game, soda pop a nickel extra). He did extravagant, free-form tap dances in front of the TV, imitating Cagney ("I loved him. He was so loving and sensitive") in Yankee Doodle Dandy...
...Mars candy ("They were the best?they'd fly you right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta to spin him around the living room ("Fly me, Daddy!"); from the spring he persuaded his father to help him build a "real" plane in the backyard (the wings and fuselage were made of wooden planks and car batteries powered the propellers)?Travolta has dreamed of soaring, of escaping...