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...have persuaded the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance a study of the bacterial species isolated in sourdough. When more is known about these starter cultures they can be packaged for sourdough production all over the nation. The cost of this recondite enterprise is calculated to make most taxpayers choke...
...often astonished by the discovery that many East Europeans admire precisely the apple-pie American isms rejected by vast numbers of American youngsters. "Hungarians really admire American materialism," a 19-year-old from the University of Wisconsin said. "They really hunger for the consumer goods that seem to choke...
Stopgap Remedy. In similar fashion Italy has taken belated action against the mass traffic jams that increasingly choke the beautiful piazzas of Rome, Florence, Genoa and other cities. Ignoring the complaints of some businessmen, Rome's traffic commissioners have established seven "pedestrian islands" in historic locations like the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. In these areas all motorized traffic is banned, and drivers must leave their cars on side streets. Shops, restaurants and cafes can load and unload trucks between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., and 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Most citizens are delighted...
...hero. It is even harder if you yourself are the hero. South Africa's renowned heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard did not entirely surmount this dilemma. In fact, it seems at times as if he or his collaborator, a onetime Newsweek correspondent in Rome, found it hard to choke self-admiration down into a deprecatory gruffness. The poor boy who made good, the youth who kept his head when all men doubted him, the Walter Mitty syndrome-all the treacherous cliches of autobiography are there. What emerges from them, however, is the unmistakable fact that Barnard's story...
...Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, a Russian political dissident who is currently reported being held in a mental institution in Tashkent, managed to send out notes that his wife has made public. "They decided to break me immediately," he wrote. "They put me into a strait jacket, beat me and choked me." When he went on a hunger strike, the attendants brutally inserted an expander into his mouth. Scribbled Grigorenko, "Force-feeding every day. I resist as much as I can. They beat me and choke me again. They twist my hands, hit my crippled leg." Earlier this month, Vladmir Bukovsky...