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...peas), joins them together in frozen sticks called Rolletes, which are now being test-marketed. It is working on the first frozen mixed-green salad, is test-marketing a new line of baby foods, which are partially dehydrated, then frozen; the baby foods come to the mother in flake form in envelopes, need only be stirred into hot water. Says Mortimer: "The nutrition is as perfect as can be. And the peas are so green that we have to explain to the mothers that we haven't added dye." As part of its new Horizon line, General Foods...
Mothers smeared their children with mud, and men swathed themselves in wet towels. Tar oozed in the streets; ink dried between well and paper. Clerks stayed overtime in their offices, where they could flake out beneath the big black ceiling fans; mounted police began their patrols early, when there was still a sliver of shade. In India last week not even mad dogs or Englishmen went out in the midday...
Hurriedly, the State Department put out an official apology. Wilson Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, forestalled an official protest to Washington from the Ghana government by making a public statement that this was "an exceptional and isolated incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...
Mathieu was too engrossed to hear. He banged the can vas with a towel soaked in yellow paint, kneaded flake-white pigment into snowballs, and pitched them at the dripping oil, slapped on more paint with rapier-quick strokes, seized handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes...
...Year's guests began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...