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Daddy Called Him Doughnut. Cookie Gilchrist ("My mother called me 'Cupcake,' my father called me 'Doughnut,' so we settled on 'Cookie' ") has been a pro ever since...
Versatile Soybean. Yankee salesmanship is changing many eating and cooking habits around the world. U.S. promoters have introduced the doughnut to Africa and Asia, spread the benefits of milk to the Middle East and Latin America, made wheat a popular substitute for rice in the Japanese diet. They have increased grain sales to Italy by showing Italians how to mix American wheat into their pastas, amazed European housewives (many of whom now work and have less time to cook) with packaged mixes that produce effortless cakes, pies, mashed potatoes, cheese dips and even pizzas. One of the fastest-growing exports...
Saigon's most pressing concern is the area that includes the capital itself. In eight surrounding provinces, the Communists have tightened what American advisers call a "doughnut" around the capital. To the south, between Saigon and the Mekong Delta, the Viet Cong are so strong that more than 50% of the population there is estimated to be under varying degrees of Communist control. To the north, the Viet Cong are steadily increasing their pressure, last week hit four government battalions in three days. The guerrillas operate right...
Conquering the Virgin. The reinforcements will be partly concentrated on the hardening "doughnut" around Saigon but will also make possible more military advisers throughout the country-currently pegged at two U.S. officers and one enlisted man for each government battalion. The locals manning isolated outposts who comprise half the government's 400,000-man military force, will also get more U.S. help...
...standing next to the two Nigerians during their confrontation with Hayes Bick. The students took their time deciding they wanted some coffee and a doughnut. The man behind the counter waited. When he put a tray in front of them one of the students, smoking a pipe, exclaimed it was dirty. The tray was a normal Bic tray with the usual coffee stains. The man wiped the tray with a paper napkin. The pipe smoker loudly protested that wiping a tray did not make it clean. The man removed the tray and put another one in front of the students...