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Where it couldn't cram its surpluses down foreign gullets, the U.S. seemed determined to force-feed its own. President Eisenhower, taking a tip from Lacto-phile Pierre Mendès-France, announced that the nation's armed forces and schoolchildren were going to get more milk. Benson urged the nation to eat more eggs. With U.S. hens laying 270 million more eggs in January than the record nestful of a year ago, Benson had reason to be alarmed. "Besides being friendly to your budget," cackled an urgent Agriculture Department brochure, "eggs are friendly...
...Cash & Glory. Today, more than 2,000,000 spectators cram into the country's biggest stadiums between the end of September and the middle of December to watch the pros play ball. Last year, for the first time on record, eleven out of twelve teams in the National Football League finished the season in the black. Income: about $60,000 per club from exhibition games, about $125,000 a season per club from TV and radio, a league total of almost $6,000,000 from the turnstiles. Such popularity, says former University of Chicago President Robert M. Hutchins...
Actor Taylor, who has learned history the hard way (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table), performs like a student fresh out of a cram session, stunned but effective. He even manages to sputter a little Arabic, or words to that effect-"umptu niagda brruschk!"-when the occasion requires. Comes time for the concluding festivities in the Pharaoh's crypt, Taylor seems so tired of it all that he hardly bothers to respond to Actress Parker's subterranean snuggling-a fact which at least spares the moviegoer a sort of petting party in a coffin...
Middle East Correspondent Keith Wheeler has had language tutors in Greece, Germany and Italy, but, he adds: "I have always, unfortunately, been forced to move on about the time we were to tackle irregular verbs. I am looking forward to having time for a real cram course." One of his favorite words in his new Arabic vocabulary is magnoon, which means "insane" and, he says, is the epithet usually applied to native automobilists...
...names and forged passports, he was sent from one European country to another and ordered to use his actor's skill to pass himself off as a native. In 1943, by his own account, he directed the assassination of German Gauleiter Wilhelm Kube in Minsk. After a hasty cram course in German, he was planted in a camp for German P.W.s. In 1947, he was granted Rumanian citizenship under the name Stanislaw Lewandowski. But for all his success and all his skill, Khokhlov was far from happy as an undercover agent. "I got into Soviet intelligence when my country...