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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spends most of it at his unit's bufet on candies and cookies to liven up his nourishing but dull diet. Breakfast usually consists of kasha (cereal porridge), bread and tea. Lunch, the main meal, may include herring, onions, a bowl of potato or vegetable soup with a chunk of meat in it, macaroni or beans, and more bread. Supper may be mashed potatoes and perhaps cabbage or cauliflower-and more bread. A Russian soldier consumes an average 1½ lbs. of bread a day, one reason that most draftees put on six to eight pounds during their tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Life in the Soviet Army | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Girl snuffled and Merilee reached over the edge of the bathtub and found her velvet ear, the one with the chunk gone, and stroked it. The keeds had wanted to come in the water with them, but Sam had disallowed the: and Merilee felt badly for Girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Osaka. Paternalism and lifetime employment are still features of Japanese corporations, and Taiyo Kogyo keeps Nakatani happy with a six-month salary bonus every year and a new-car loan every two years. Corporate entertainment allowances total $2 billion a year in Japan, and Nakatani spends a good chunk of his $1,600 share taking foreign customers to geisha parties. But he is not a kimono chaser. That tradition is beginning to fade, albeit slowly, as Japan's women become more assertive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward the Japanese Century | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Harvard Astronomer Is Second Man To Calculate Course of Meteorite | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...Lost City meteorite is very ordinary as meteorites go, just an oblong chunk of stone and metal with a black crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Analyze Oklahoma Meteorite; Expect Several Important Discoveries | 1/16/1970 | See Source »

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