Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Franco sighed. It was a computer, no doubt, that had standardized all the food in Europe to the point where everything tasted like frozen fish-fingers. Computers wrote songs and turned out plays and musicals by simply juggling with all previously successful formulas. They produced nearly all political speeches in the same cold-blooded manner, and they were soon to take over the actual selection of candidates for office...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL. The Thirty-nine Steps, The General, Mar. 9, 10, 8 & 10 p.m., $1. Kid's Film Festival: The Golden Fish, The Rink, with Charlie Chaplin, Gunga Din with Mr. Magoo; three cartoons, Mar. 10, 10 a.m. and 12 midnite, $.50 (midnite showing $.25 with stub from Fri. or Sat. night...
President Nixon recently rose from an elegant dinner of pompano at a restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla., paused next to a customer who was deliberating over various expensive meats on the menu, and advised: "It's patriotic to eat fish." A few days later, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns amplified on the Nixonian diet. "I think it would be a good idea," declared Burns, "if we had a meatless day once a week." His suggestion: buy more cheese...
...free is wide open. Any one of several Yale of Harvard swimmers could win, while the 200-yd. backstroke confrontation between the Crimson's Tom Wolfe and Yale's Eric Fish will be another key race...
North Viet Nam, which had a gross national product of $1.6 billion in 1970 ($90 per capita), suffered extensive disruption of its light industry-notably food processing (rice, sugar, fish, tea) and textiles ("bombed to pieces," in the words of a Swedish authority). Hanoi's Viet Nam News Agency claims that the machinery that was evacuated to avoid bomb damage is now being returned. The North also has an embryonic coal-mining industry, which underwent some damage, but Japan stands ready to buy 2,000,000 tons annually from the Hon Gay coal mines...