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...littie woman of 54 known only as Meg, who sang Danny Boy in a round, waddling contralto. Said she: "I only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent dessert spoons like castanets. The evening was a smash success. "After all," says Partridge, "if they weren't any good, they wouldn't be buskers. Bad buskers starve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performers: The Rosie Side of the Street | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Varadero International: Bring a bathing suit, because Varadero Beach, a 15-mile-long ribbon of white sand, is magnificent. Passengers on Eastern Flight 73 were berthed here. They were allowed to go swimming. They were also fed a free meal (appetizer, roast beef, rice, salad, dessert) while two Cuban bands played bossa nova and blues in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: What to Do When The Hijacker Comes | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

From his own experience, the architect has decided that "pot certainly isn't addictive in the normal sense. For those who like it, it's as habit-forming as strawberry ice cream to people who love that dessert. Since my first try, I have gone as much as six months without so much as a puff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Pot: Safer than Alcohol? | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...White House luncheons hosted by the First Lady are traditionally as dulcet as the ladies' favorite dessert of peppermint mousse. When Mrs. Lyndon Johnson invited 50 women "doers" to the first of a new series of campaign-oriented repasts devoted to national problems last week, she did not anticipate a side order of vinegar from one of her best-known guests, Negro Entertainer Eartha Kitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady: Down to Eartha | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...companies to place rabbinical stamps of approval on thousands of food goods, from cola to canned beans. Many supermarkets carry such modern kosher delicacies as a "bacon" made from beef rather than forbidden pork, and a soybean-based ice cream, made without milk, which can be eaten as a dessert at meals where there is meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: Orthodoxy's New Look | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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