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...good old days in Austin, Texas, say 1970, a guy could risk trouble for deriding country-and-western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
...movements might contribute to so many diverse diseases are complex and indirect, the Burkitt group concedes. Diverticulosis-in which the large bowel is deeply pitted and fecal material is trapped in the crevices-appears to be directly related to a diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process that predisposes to coronary heart disease...
Giroud's mission is monumental if taken literally. Despite recent gains, the prevailing attitude toward women in France is aptly expressed by last year's popular song, Hands in the Flour: "I love my wife in the living room, I love my wife in the bedroom, but I love her best in the kitchen, with her hands in the flour." Idealized as wives and mothers, French women were almost the last in Europe to leave the home and go to work. Though 40% of the labor force is now made up of women, their total income is only...
...Part of the answer is a lag in prices from farm to supermarket. For example, Arnold Bakers, a New York breadmaker, until recently was paying $13.50 per 100 lbs. for flour under contracts signed last winter and spring -though the immediate-delivery price for flour fell as low as $9.60, reflecting declines in wheat. Also, some agricultural prices have kept on rising: sugar recently hit a record 26? per lb., boosting prices of goods ranging from Life Savers to Kool-Aid soft drinks. But the biggest reason is that "middlemen" (a term covering bakeries, canners, meat packers, supermarket chains...
...mean outright hunger. Spending up to 60% of their income on food, the poor consume the most basic of diets and cannot "spend down" by substituting cheaper items when the cost of their regular diet goes up. Worse, the foodstuffs that they eat much of, such as rice, flour and dried beans, have risen even faster in price than meat and butter, which the middle class eats more of. The price of dried beans, for example, has leaped an astounding 256% since December 1970, while rice has jumped 124%. As a result, the nation's needy are hungrier...