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Gland Trouble. When animals are overcrowded, says Hoagland, their increase often slows down even when they have plenty of food. Horrible things happen among jammed-up flour beetles. Females destroy their eggs; they turn cannibalistic and eat one another. Males lose interest in females, and though plenty of flour is left for food, the beetle population reaches a statistical plateau...
...contrast with the cock-a-hoop mood of a few years back, most Russians now seem bitterly resigned to the shortages, discomforts and joyless conformity of life as they now know it. In the cities all winter, housewives have had to wait interminably in line for potatoes, macaroni, flour, coal and coarse, gritty brown bread; in some areas, where bread ran out, they have heeded Marie Antoinette's apocryphal advice and queued for cookies and cake instead. Asked recently how he thought 1964 would turn out, one Muscovite replied dryly: "Worse than 1963, but better than...
...this woman's jokes, push the car until it starts and bring her sherry in the bath?" She loathes trading stamps: "If I want to buy a watch, I want to buy a watch; I don't want to buy 27,720 Ibs. of self-raising flour and then get a watch free." She loves sluts, and enlists herself bravely in their cause...
Take two carloads of flour, sift, add 2,750 gallons of shortening, 3½ tons of salt, 190,000 packets of yeast. Mix well. Let stand and rise for 19 hours. Mix again. Let stand another four hours. Roll into thin sheet and cut into small squares. Place in 300-ft.-long oven for three minutes at temperatures ranging from 560° to 620°. Yield: 28,280,000 saltine crackers...
...Guarantee. "This transaction," said he, "has obvious benefits for the U.S." Taking note of the fact that U.S. allies in recent weeks have sold between 10 million and 15 million tons of wheat and flour to the Communist bloc, he added: "It would be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy wheat from us today and then sell it as flour to the Communists." To turn the deal down, added Kennedy later, would only convince the Kremlin "that we are either too hostile or too timid to take any further steps toward peace, that...