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...Surprise that was usually a Big Letdown. Only one entree a meal was offered to students. Since then the trend has been toward variety in choice. Changes have included the availability of vegetarian plates at every meal and a diversified salad bar including the new rage, three bean salad. The number of beverages has jumped, and a menu coordinated with religious holidays has taken form. The popular hamburger-alternative at the Quad Houses has also appeared...
...polls had not even closed when Ed Sadlowski, insurgent candidate for president of the 1.4 million-member United Steelworkers, began muttering about fraud. Brewing up a cauldron of bean soup at his cluttered campaign headquarters in Chicago, he told visitors that only by stealing the election could union chiefs deprive him of the presidency: "They've done it before, and they'll do it again." At his opponent's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Campaign Press Chief Hank Raebun phoned Organization Candidate Lloyd McBride at home in St. Louis. "We're doin' good, buddy," he crowed...
...HEARTY. The metabolism works overtime when the body is exposed to cold. As the human's heat pump, the body has to be fueled-with food. In Maine logging camps, a typical meal consists of vegetable soup, baked beans, bread and jam, macaroni and cheese, ground-beef casserole, pancakes, spaghetti and meatballs, beef stew, fresh baking-powder biscuits, in no particular order. Somewhat more delicately, Julia Child girds for winter with bean soup, enriched with leftover beef or lamb stew or whatever, and home-baked bread. And long johns...
...parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that, unlike the vanilla bean, White does not wish to be extracted...
...Bean's is complaining, since business has jumped 30% each year since 1967. The famous quarterly Bean catalogue, crammed with nylon gaiters, duck-hunting caps, long Johns and the like, now goes out to 2 million geared-up customers. After operating only one retail outlet (in Seattle) for 18 years, Eddie Bauer has opened nine new stores across the nation since 1971. At Gokeys, the mailing list has grown by almost half since last year. The new country-chic look has even received benediction from fashion critics who gave out Coty awards (fashion's Oscars) last September...