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Still, Anglo-Saxon palates were hearty rather than decadent. Lots of meat broths and stews were the order of the day. Salt was obligatory in cheese and butter as well as on meat, making home-brewed ale equally obligatory. All lips smacked through the age of Chaucer...
...this trend develops, there will arise the questions that arose within the CIO. Will a national student union be a political body or concern itself with the bread-and-butter issues of the university? My guess is that it would not end in bread-and-butter unionism, but be more like the CIO's Political Action Committee of the later New Deal days...
...London to begin a tour of three capitals, reminding Europe that Britain's joining the EEC without safeguarding the economic interests of the Commonwealth would mean "disaster" for New Zealand. Though France is opposed to Britain's trade preferences for Commonwealth countries, concessions for New Zealand butter and sugar from former Caribbean and Pacific possessions can probably be successfully negotiated...
...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...