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...Cardboard Crackers. Most customers opted for the health-food exhibits. Vittles were, in fact, the show's best attraction. Most were made from organically grown fruit and grains, nurtured without chemical fertilizers, sweetened with honey instead of refined sugar and packaged without preservatives-a feature that may enhance their appeal, though not their shelf life. Plants produce nutrients to aid their own growth, not to benefit the consumer, and there is no reliable evidence that organically grown foods are any more nutritious than those produced by conventional means. Nor did most health-food exhibitors make any wild claims. Admitting...
...joining the aircraft firm: "You never sell to the Chinese-they buy from you." Aircraft salesmen usually pass around cuff links, miniature aircraft-panel clocks and other freebies to prospective customers, but Miller observed the Chinese emphasis on strict propriety by taking along as gifts only a stack of cardboard time-distance indicators that show flight times between various cities. These gradually disappeared from the table during the team's twice-daily three-hour sessions with officials of the machinery corporation and of China's civil aviation authority...
...contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion that ended up in a Chinatown sportswear shop. There it was the agent's turn to inspect the wares: a cardboard box packed with 14 plastic bags containing 20 Ibs. of pure No. 4 white heroin from Southeast Asia. Street value: $10 million...
...have to pay a heavy tax. When security men asked them if they were carrying packages from or for anyone, the girls replied no. The cassette player was in a wicker basket, which El Al attendants would not allow in the cabin. But airline employees placed it in a cardboard box and sent it to the cargo compartment. That simple precaution probably prevented considerable bloodshed...
HOSTMANSHIP. On the floor of the guest-room closet, the Host secrets a corrugated cardboard box full of ancient trophies, medals and ribbons, purchased at local antique emporiums. The awards-the more tarnished the better -may be for floral arrangements or American Legion conventions; none needs have the Host's name on it. As he shows the Guest around, the Summer Gamesman opens the closet door...