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...enticing tourists to this country was immediately sent to my mother in Denmark, who this summer will be making her sixth contribution to the tourist-gap cause. She is a devotee of the drugstore, which to her is a most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate kisses. She even...
...fight the little green fern, Rhodesia has already spent nearly $3,000,000 and has little to show for it. No chemical has yet been found that will kill the weed and leave fish unharmed. No native animal eats the weed. One possibility is to import manatees, the tropical American sea cows that are used in British Guiana to eat ditches clear of vegetation (TIME. Dec. 19). Another possibility is the coypu, or nutria, a South American aquatic rodent that has a voracious appetite for water plants. It reproduces almost as fast as Salvinia, and the scientists fear that...
...with the Neck. Secret of Trader Vic Bergeron's success is his preference for South Sea atmosphere rather than culinary authenticity. "How are you going to make a pig in the ground in your restaurant?" asks Bergeron. "Furthermore, you can't eat real Polynesian food. It's the most horrible junk I've ever tasted...
Mary, Mary. A thoroughly engaging comedy by Jean Kerr, author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, who offers an obvious marriage-divorce plot but has decorated it with splendid...
Mary, Mary. With her criticisms confined to her witticisms, Jean Kerr (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) neatly jabs mankind and womankind with a smooth and engagingly witty comedy about the inconveniences of marriage and divorce...