Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet caviar industry has a persistent problem: too many sturgeons are males, which yield no caviar.† And despite years of effort, no one yet has discovered any way to alter this unproductive balance of nature. But Soviet Biologist Boris Astaurov, an authority on practical sex determination, is about ready to solve the problem, thus satisfying Soviet gourmets and pleasing Soviet authorities who prize the export earnings of caviar. (The gourmets and the authorities tend to be the same people...
...Caviar Every Day. Another lure is a flock of door prizes that recently included a purebred horse and a white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives...
...eventually emasculated it. Britain's most influential Ban-the-Bomber, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who has been quicker to censure the U.S. than the U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy officials. He explained he could take its tea and caviar but could no longer "swallow comments, about the innocence of the Soviet Union; never had there been such innocence in the history of mankind...
...Rural Cooperatives, the Royal Publishing Co., the Melli Insurance Co., the Gohestan Sugar Mill, the Fars and Khuzistan Cement plant, scores of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, including the Kolbeh in Teheran, which remains one of the few spots in Iran still offering French strippers, Russian vodka and Caspian caviar, despite the austerity laws imposed earlier this year...
...totted up the expense-account tariff for their "Task Force" crusades in Europe (TIME, June 30). On the three-man, three-week, 1955 Moscow junket alone, estimated Visiting Firebrand William Randolph Hearst Jr., the tab averaged $1,000 a day. "On the other hand," prompted Fellow Journeyman Conniff, "the caviar was good, and they had a certain liquid there that didn't hurt either...