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Latin Americans, as well as Norteamericanos, were boiling over coffee last week. The Latinos insisted that the soaring prices were wholly due to frost and drought, and they resented U.S. charges that they were gouging their U.S. customers. After President Eisenhower, himself a coffee lover, told a press conference that something should be done to reduce the price of the stuff ($1.10 a Ib. in U.S. groceries last week), Rio's newspaper Diario Carioca complained testily that "our brave and dignified friend [is] making a little demagoguery and sticking his spoon into the coffee case...
...flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from El Salvador advised the U.S. to quit demanding nickel coffee until it resumed making $1,000 automobiles...
Chief reason: a frost last July, which wiped out almost one-third of the crop...
Near the Heart. As far as it went, the story of Germany's rise in 1953 was good for the democracies and bad for Communism. But other years and other men will determine whether there will be a happy ending. Konrad Adenauer is 78 this month. In the frost of his rigid, imperious command over machinery of both party and government, few sprouts of leadership have been able to grow. "How long I can hold my present office no one can tell," he said. "Even I cannot. My health and strength are excellent. Nothing, however, is nearer my heart...
...beginning with an early-morning stop at the food markets. At her East Side Manhattan apartment (where the maid does almost all the cooking), she stocks 3,000 cookbooks, keeps ten filing cabinets full of notes ("If I'm writing on blueberries, I look into my file. Robert Frost. If I want to quote. I can quote"), is now working to complete a book of her own titled How America Eats. Clementine knows the subject well because she often jumps around the country, poking into other people's kitchens, writing about everyone from a sausage stuffer...