Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agriculture. The farmers want 15% price increases for their products, even though the E.E.C.'s external tariffs and food prices are already very high. A ring of Italian smugglers was recently able to make $6,000,000-or 80? a pound-by importing 5,000 tons of butter from Communist Eastern Europe and reselling it in Common Market countries...
ROBBERY runs are the bread and butter of good police work. Your first challenge is to elicit the facts and a description of the culprits as rapidly as possible, then to flash the information over the radio, and finally to launch a search. Since the closure rate is fairly high when lookouts are flashed within two or three minutes of a crime, and increasingly low there after, speed is of the essence. Just as important, you have to apply some intelligence to the question of where a robber would be likely to flee. Even with speed and intelligence, the overwhelming...
Full of Faith. When Indira was 13, her father advised her in a letter he wrote while in prison: "Ordinary men and women are not usually heroic. They think of their daily bread and butter, of their children, of their household worries and the like. But a time comes when a whole people become full of faith for a great cause, and then even simple, ordinary men and women become heroes, and history becomes stirring and epochmaking. Great leaders have something in them which inspires a whole people and makes them do great deeds." Nehru's daughter has inspired...
...rich St. Louis real estate developer, Vittert showed considerable ingenuity at earning money as an undergraduate. His profitable enterprises included a direct-mail campaign selling a campus "survival kit": Vittert sent letters to students' parents promoting a package of fruit, peanut butter and candy, which for $5 would be sent to their sons and daughters when they crammed for final exams. Vittert's drive for individuality also made him campus handball and pingpong champion-and a sartorial iconoclast: though he has his hair cut short and dresses in pin-stripe gray suits, he almost never wears socks...
...reading Robinson Crusoe as a girl-Madame de La Tour du Pin had the star-survivor qualities of a first-generation American. She found nothing to compare with the beauty of the Hudson River at West Point. She made friends with America's aristocrats, the Indians. Her monogrammed butter was in demand. But the marquis evidently was a less happy exile, eager to resume his career in French public life at the first opportunity...