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...England narcotics officials said mattress hair, dried beet greens, snuff, roots, sticks, and assorted weeds are being sold as grass...
...many of the racers among them work in plush surroundings. California's Los Alamitos Race Course, a $15 million complex 35 miles south of Los Angeles, was built in 1947 by Frank Vessels Jr. and his late father on the site of a former beet farm. Los Alamitos drew 457,080 fans last year and attendance is up 30% this year. It pays better than beets, too: close to $750,000 a night passes through Los Alamitos' parimutuel windows...
...idea of building a steel complex in the middle of sugar-beet fields, which led to the creation of the city of Salzgitter (pop. 120,000), was Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring's; the plants bore his name when opened in the early days of World War II. The West German government inherited the war-damaged plants, renamed them Salzgitter AG, and nursed them back at a cost of more than $1 billion. Salzgitter provided work for some 70,000 people in a tense and economically weak area and showed a modest profit after it was rebuilt...
...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
There the deadlock stood - until last week, when Common Market ministers meeting in Brussels finally agreed on a plan that will go into effect in 1968 and pay up to $1.5 billion annually to French wheat growers, Dutch dairy men, Italian fruit and vegetable farmers, and Belgian beet-sugar producers to subsidize their exports. France will collect 40% to 45% of this total. Funds for these payments will be raised in equal parts from duties on farm imports from outside the Common Market and from payments by the treasuries of the Six, in a proportion of 32% from France...