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Knock on the Door. After the pictures, it was time to head for the dining room, where Cook Zephyr Wright waited with a holiday meal featuring turkey and corn-bread stuffing and sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows. But hold on there. "Come in and see our house," said the President to the reporters. "It'll just take a minute." Lady Bird looked pained. "Honey," she said in wifely tones, "I promise I'll give all these folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey...
...what a Bolivian civil servant or factory worker makes. Two years ago, when a market woman applied for a U.S. visa in La Paz, she was asked about her financial security and produced $20,000 in U.S. greenbacks. What do they do with their earnings? They spend them on corn liquor or such local variations as Colombia's aguardiente, for radios, sewing machines or even a truck. Some women invest their savings in real estate; many yearn to send their offspring to school so that an illiterate mother can take pride in her well-educated children...
Fans of Gilbert and Sullivan on no account will want to miss seeing the G & S Players' production of The Gondoliers, or the King of Barataria, but they may come away from it slightly puzzled. The operetta abounds in happy lyrics and exquisite corn. Brilliant costuming and scenery set the stage for some moments of first rate singing and acting. Yet because a variety of things are done standardly, a handful of performers, rather than the whole production, make the evening outstanding...
...Graball Harthwart, director of the Dining Hall Department, speculated yesterday that contaminated corn may have caused the epidemic...
Aber No Sweat. As a result, Anglicisms are now weirdly lodged in most major languages. Russian futbol fans cheer a fourvard's goal, jeer an offside penalty. Western-vowed stilyagi (Teddy boys) call themselves Tom, Dick or Harry, and breakfast on corn flakes...