Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While still Deputy Secretary, Vance was dispatched to dampen the 1964 anti-American crisis in the Canal Zone, thus beginning his remarkable set of peacemaking missions for Johnson. In 1965 Vance's skills as a negotiator helped settle a civil war in Santo Domingo, and in 1967 he lent a calming hand to the Army's occupation of Detroit, where violent race riots had killed 43 people...
...window of time that is opening up in which it is possible to make real progress. We ought to be prepared to assist within that time and help bring about meaningful negotiations." In addition, he said, the Carter Administration will give immediate attention to negotiating a new canal treaty with Panama. (Carter has said he would be willing to "share more fully the responsibilities" for the canal with Panama but would "never give up complete control or practical control of the Panama Canal Zone.") Vance also hopes to move ahead on normalization of relations with Communist China...
...France, cooking has been described as the art of making leftovers taste good. In America, cooking is usually considered a chore, not an art, and leftovers are to be swallowed with one's pride. But 400 years on the alimentary canal is not a long stretch for the development of a national cuisine. Europeans had more than twice that long. The Chinese have had millenniums. Instead of time, Americans have had abundance-and a level of consumption triumphantly buoyed up by waste. In Eating in America the authors offer ample evidence of the relationship between waste and taste...
...invention of the icebox in 1803, the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the development of the vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process...
...Soviet Academy of Sciences have found a way to make a caviar substitute out of milk, and the Ministry of Fisheries has opened a pilot production line in Moscow to try it out. Located in a corner of a large fish processing plant on the banks of the Moscow Canal, the line is a 60-ft. stretch of stainless-steel tanks, plunging pistons and gurgling agitators, ending in a conveyor belt that delivers small jars labeled CAVIAR-PROTEIN-FRESH. Although the facility turns out only 440 lbs. a day, bigger plants are on the drawing boards...