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...biggest Communist Party rally of the French presidential election campaign. Thousands of students and workers marched across Paris to the historic Place de la Bastille. Many carried banners with familiar bread-and-butter Slogans: WE WANT HOUSING AND JOBS and PRODUCE FRENCH. Caravans of buses filled with activists poured in from the provinces. With rope and tackle, a mountain climber managed to hoist a red flag to the summit of the square's monumental central column, where it fluttered from the arms of a winged figure. Finally the party's pugnacious leader, Presidential Candidate Georges Marchais, rose...
...negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge of $800 million in aid, plus shipments of surplus wheat. In Washington, Jagielski was received by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Vice President George Bush; they promised to sell Warsaw 50,000 tons of surplus butter and dried milk and to consider cooperating on rescheduling Poland's $3 billion U.S. debt...
...penniless widow picking potatoes to support herself and a young son. After hearing complaints from other women about unwanted pregnancies, she consulted a medical book and began selling a four-page birth-control pamphlet. Uhse paid the printer for the first publication by giving him 5 Ibs. of scarce butter...
Another alternative to peanut butter is sunflower spread. It has the texture and appearance of peanut butter and sells for $1.99 per 18-oz. jar. In addition to roasted sunflower seeds, ingredients include hydrogenated rape seed, which is commonly fed to birds and is said not to stick to beaks. As for the flavor, both cottonseed and sunflower spreads compare to the real thing like, say, California sauternes to Chateau d'Yquem...
...strangely out of touch with the times, the sentiments behind it are even more peculiarly isolated from what is current. In this respect Helprin sometimes writes like Poe's alcoholic younger brother. Helprin's work lacks all the modern emotions and non-emotions that presumably are the bread and butter of modern writers. Alienation, ennui, and desperation all fail to make appearances in this book. The closest approach to the contemporary is a bittersweet sense of loss and of being lost that deepens the emotions of most of the characters, but it remains whispy and gently, one of the beauties...