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...would be turned to good account. Carefully extracted from the womb, they would be conditioned to a separate existence in pools set aside especially for them. There they would grow scales and fins under the supervision of the State. And next door to the abortarium there would be a canning factory producing tinned fish in vast quantities. Some embryos would be turned into sardines, others into sprats, all according to their national characteristics. And it would all be strictly in keeping with Marxism. Admittedly, it meant a return to cannibalism . . . but on a more refined and altogether higher level...
...first decisions as president was to assign 20 engineers to work on automating the canning industry, traditionally resistant to technological advance because of the necessity of hand-sorting of foodstuffs. Campbell's engineers devised an electronic sorter for rice grain, another for vegetables. To preserve the reputation for quality of Campbell products year in and year out, Murphy's tasting boards check soups and other foods coming off the production line in Campbell's nine major U.S. plants every hour of the day. At 11 a.m. the manager and his executive assistants at each plant pause...
...international reputation of the Harvard Summer School gained a new twist at the week's end. Received by the "Social Secretary" of that institution was a communique from Able Seamen Canning, Scott, and Smith of HMS Barnard at Greenoch, Scotland, asking consorts for future group maneuvers in North Atlantic waters...
...substances that produce flavor are made by enzymes (organic catalysts) out of tasteless "flavor precursors." When food is preserved by canning, freezing or dehydration, the flavor, along with the enzymes, is apt to be destroyed. The precursors survive. But without the proper enzymes, they do not produce flavor...
Swinging with smooth power, canning his putts with authority, Nicklaus caught Coe on the 21st hole. Going into the 36th, the exhausted Coe and the confident Nicklaus were still tied. The sun was down, and the greens had slowed when Coe chipped for the cup out of a grassed bunker. Normally, the ball would have rolled in, but in the dampening grass it stopped inches away. Nicklaus conferred briefly with 16-year-old Caddy Bob Valdes ("Best greens reader we've got," said Club Pro Ed Dudley). Then Nicklaus took his new putter and sank his eight-footer...