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...until, at 18, an accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street ironically named Via Progresso. Valente scratched out a living manufacturing everything from electric hot plates to railroad accessories, until a café owner, Achille Gaggia, came to him with an idea for an espresso machine. For ten years, Gaggia had been unable to interest any manufacturers in his process; Valente saw the potential immediately. It was 1947, and "I realized that busy people could no longer linger over café filtre...
Civilized Contribution. Most of the machines are built for bars and cafés, but in 1964 Faema began producing a coin-operated model for plants and offices that grinds the coffee beans and brews a cup in 20 seconds. This month Valente introduced his latest design, a fully automatic machine that has three buttons: one for "short," extra-strong coffee, another for "long," slightly weaker coffee, and a third for a continuous flow of coffee to fill a pot. Valente hopes that the variety of the new machine will help to lengthen what he calls the "espresso belt...
...Salisbury's Central Prison and uttered the mournful wail of the Shona tribe, "Wayehe, wayehe" ("Please, God"), Milton sprang the traps on the prison's gallows last week and sent three Rhodesian blacks spinning into eternity. Then, returning to the pleased white patrons of his Zambezi Valley café, he sent off a postcard to a friend: "Three in one this time." He signed it "The Dropper...
Bruce's conviction grew out of an arrest for delivering a scatological monologue at the Café Au Go Go, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse. In the criminal trial, Judges John M. Murtagh and J. Randall Creel said that Bruce had "clearly debased sex and insulted it," in addition to using basic English synonyms for incest, sodomy and excrement. Thus, they ruled, Bruce had exceeded all three of the U.S. Supreme Court guidelines that currently determine legal obscenity. These guidelines state that material is obscene if it appeals dominantly to prurient interest, breaches contemporary standards relating to the description...
...inhabitants eat French food in restaurants, shop for French bread, sip crèmes and demi-pressions (beer) in sidewalk cafés, grow up on French textbooks and must be familiar with Racine and Corneille by the tenth grade in school. Most of all, the top men are firm partisans of Charles de Gaulle. "I consider the general my adopted father," says Brigadier Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic and a former officer in the French colonial army. "Politics does not enter into our relationship...