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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOSE SAUSAGES hanging in ZumZum are fake; I asked the waitress--they're all very friendly--and she told me that they're made of some very solid, very heavy material. This sounds to me like a pretty accurate description of what they actually serve. Unless you like German food--about five different kinds of wursts--it's best to stick to the frankfurter with sauerkraut, a big juicy hotdog for 35 cents. The desserts, doughnuts, fruit salad, and apple crumbles, are also cheap and good. What ZumZum does best is breakfast, the standard fare plus apple pancakes, although...
...University Restaurant is a much fancier place. Prices are a good deal higher (75c minimum) but the food is just about worth it. It is the first place in the Square without much character--a respectable restaurant for when you don't feel like eating Chinese or French but would like something better than Hazen's. The club sandwiches and the lunch specials will fill you up for under two dollars, including onion rings and French fries and cole slaw--also ketchup, which ZumZum doesn't supply, being strictly German. (Instead they have china pots of mustard cutely labeled...
...other areas concerning health, Finch has a free hand. Last week, as guardian of the nation's food, he appointed a commission to investigate the ecological effects of pesticides; he has meanwhile banned DDT-contaminated fish from interstate commerce. "I am very apprehensive about the situation," Finch declared. "Our present estimates are that each American has an average of twelve parts per million of DDT in the fatty tissue." While his department is only one of several concerned with ecology, Finch has been a leader in expressing concern. "The ecological sequence is just frightening," he says, discussing pesticides. "It drives...
...fire for several months." Several special circumstances, moreover, contributed to the March price increases. One was the fact that high interest rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year, rebounded sharply to their former levels. Food rose by 0.4% and clothing by 0.6%. Higher prices did not deter shoppers from buying spring fashions; March sales in the apparel industry rose 14% above their level of a year earlier...
Unabashed Salesmanship. Beate, who flew fighter planes from the factory to the front for the Luftwaffe during World War II, started her business soon after Germany's defeat. Shrewdly realizing that Germans were eager to avoid having children because of food and housing shortages, she began cribbing contraceptive data from a medical tome and selling the information by mail. Her success is based on thorough organization and unabashed salesmanship. Uhse sales clerks, for example, are all trained to casually enunciate such words as penis and orgasm without flinching...