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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough Grandfather. Before they broke for a luncheon of shrimp cocktail, roast beef and rice pilaf, they joshed about whether to eat at all. Kosygin said he was a tough grandfather. Having sipped coffee and iced tea during the morning meeting, he could go the rest of the day without food. Johnson prevailed, and lunch was served on a cloth-covered raw-wood table hastily hammered together by the White House kitchen staff, which had come up from Washington along with the food. During the meal, which was attended by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...West Point Army major who died on a Japanese P.O.W. ship, the brothers were raised in Redondo Beach, Calif. "Tommy was the biggest bunch of trouble," recalls Mother Smothers. "He used to get Dickie and Sherry, their younger sister, to take picnic baskets to the cemetery and eat off the tombstones." At San Jose State College, they were the rage of the Phi Kappa house, and eventually they graduated to a local college hangout, where they were paid off in peanuts and beer. Their twisted versions of folk classics ("Black is the colour of my love's true hair...
...Rosen got on the trail among the Mabaan, a primitive tribe in a remote part of the southeast Sudan who eat practically no meat or saturated fat and have low cholesterol and blood-pressure levels even in their 70s. They are a quiet people, but that alone did not explain why their hearing is amazingly sharp, especially for frequencies as high as 12,000 cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity...
...trade deficit of $500 million, and more than half of its cotton crop-its principal export-is mortgaged to Communist-bloc nations to pay for past shipments of military hardware. Food is becoming increasingly scarce. The government long ago decreed three meatless days a week, has told Egyptians to eat macaroni instead of their beloved rice, and now faces the prospect of a macaroni shortage unless it can find a way to import vast quantities of wheat...
...Karbonová), live like dolls, chattering and giggling, floundering about in their oversized bed, making a shambles of sets and sense. In scenes suffused with unearthly tints and shades, the girls attack each other with scissors and cut off each other's heads, wear butterflies instead of bikinis, eat food ads instead of food, swing from a chandelier over a banquet table they have just tromped into a mangled mess...