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...centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying, "A miss is as good as 1.609 kilometers...
...does, however, indulge a few personal whims. He likes peanut butter and banana sandwiches with Pepsi or Nesbitt's orange soda to drink. He owns half a dozen cars, including a gold-trimmed Cadillac that has been spray-painted with 40 coats of crushed diamonds. But since that is a bit showy for everyday and is being used by RCA on promotion tours, a black Rolls-Royce does the journeyman work...
...years, the decline in Russia's industrial growth rate had been checked. Whereas the 1964 growth rate had been a miserable 7.1%, this year's first quarter showed a 9% expansion in industrial output. More heartening to Kosygin & Co. was the record production of meat and butter, showing that the catastrophic crop failure of 1963 had been surmounted. Another sign of agricultural recovery was the issuing of flour-rationed since the end of 1963-to Moscow housewives for the Russian Orthodox Easter holidays...
...Georgia-bred actress, his frequent costar, who won an Oscar in 1957 for her smoldering performance in The Three Faces of Eve: their third child, third daughter (he has one son, two other daughters by a previous marriage); by natural childbirth, which left mother able to enjoy two peanut-butter sandwiches half an hour after delivery; in Manhattan...
...foreigners, my family and I enjoyed a much higher standard of living than any Chinese--a standing government policy. Of course we had no car, no television, no washing machine, no steam heat, but we did have a larger meat ration, enough money to buy milk, butter, and eggs, and a house with its own courtyard. In the summer we were given vacations at the seaside, still reserved for the most outstanding model workers. Whenever we travelled, however, we were plagued by red tape and special passes...