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...housewife knows that she can get a tender steak by paying the butcher a small fortune for a fork-soft filet. She can also buy cheap bottom round and use a chemical to undermine its resistance. Chemically tenderized meats are now standard in restaurants and on many home dinner tables, but few chefs or housewives realize that the harmless industrial enzymes that make their meat tender-many of them now marketed in powder form for home use-rank with the subtlest tricks of modern chemistry...
...food processors. Staley admits that such strikes, if successful, would raise retail food prices; but he argues that the U.S. taxpayer would find the increase well worth it. Reason: if the farmer were protected by contracts achieved through collective bargaining, there would be no need for the Government to fork out billions of dollars in subsidy payments...
Emerging from an all-day session with the Khrushchevs at Yalta-a swim in the Black Sea surf (K. wore an inflated rubber ring), a dinner with the family-U Thant allowed: "We covered a lot of ground." But as for any hope that Russia will fork out its share of the U.N. commitments, U Thant could only reply bleakly: "Chairman Khrushchev reiterated his traditional position regarding this matter." In other words, Nikita still considers the operations "illegal" and will pay none of their costs...
...presidential plane, as Kennedy flew into Pueblo, Colo., for a speech about a $170 million project to divert water from the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers on the western slopes of the Rockies into the Arkansas River valley on the east, was Colorado's Democratic Senator John Carroll. A loyal Kennedy backer in Congress, Carroll faces a stiff re-election challenge this year from Republican Representative Peter Dominick. It was Carroll who introduced Kennedy to some 8,000 cheering spectators in the Pueblo High School Stadium...
Eggs: To scramble, use "room-temperature eggs . . . beat with a fork, not with an egg beater...