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Frozen yogurt is actually just the latest ferment in the general yogurt boom. Exalted in ancient writings as the food of the gods, yogurt has become popular in the U.S. only in the past decade. In 1975 Americans ate 200,000 tons of it, nearly $300 million worth-up from $25 million...
Your revolution occurred in an age of intellectual ferment when men such as Locke and later Montesquieu, Rousseau and Hume were seeking to apply logic and reason to understanding man and his institutions embodying this tradition of logical enquiry...
...days after graduation, Endicott Peabody Jr. '71 went out to Colorado and joined the Colorado National Bank as a management trainee. "There was a lot of ferment and people who were restless and anxious to do something about the Vietnam war in some form," Peabody said last week about his undergraduate stay. "I kind of feel sorry that it happened when I was there or that it happened at all. We got away from the college experience--we were nationally oriented...
...case, Nixon stands to get a rare and intimate look at China's leaders at a time of mysterious ferment. Though the White House is not happy to see him go, it may derive some benefit from the trip. Nixon plans to make a report to the Ford Administration when he returns...
Drafting Workers. The political ferment in Spain has been intensified by growing labor unrest. Some 250,000 workers in the banking, construction and metalworking industries have walked off their jobs to protest low wages. When postal and rail workers threatened to do the same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single...