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...Fresh fruit and fantasy now turn butterfat into delicious...
What can be determined for sure is that cheap ice cream is half air. It would be airier still if Government regulations allowed it. Expensive ice cream is less than 30% air. Not only is superpremium made with the best cream, fresh fruit, chocolate and liqueurs (a fine French vanilla assays out at 3% egg yolks, twice the minimum specified by the U.S. Government for ice cream that is labeled French), but it contains a great deal more of these ingredients. A gallon of asylum-grade supermarket chocolate ripple weighs about 4½ lbs., and a gallon of Ben & Jerry...
...time, and her parents, who have never recovered from the 60s, are a big part of it all, smoking dope with the kids, hugging and kissing everyone, getting down and getting wasted. But then everybody leaves, and Brooke and friend settle down for the evening, he clad in his Fruit-of-the-Looms, and she wearing only tricky camera angles that preserve whatever innocence she has left after so many sleazy roles...
More than 500 National Guardsmen carted the fruit away, burying an estimated 750 tons in Santa Clara landfill dumps. Roadblocks had been set up at three points and produce was confiscated from 12,661 of the 286,240 cars and trucks checked. But aerial support was vital, and many Californians, especially farmers, were angry that spraying did not start sooner. At first Governor Jerry Brown had resisted, evidently concerned that he would alienate his strong environmentalist constituency. He changed his mind when U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block began planning a quarantine. Complained California Senator S.I. Hayakawa: "Brown should have done...
...each year. Expensive fumigation and cold-storage treatment could save some crops, but there is no way to salvage dates, figs, olives or almonds. California need only look across the Pacific for an example of the fly's destructive power. Hawaii has been infested since 1910. The only fruit it exports in large quantities is the thick-skinned pineapple, which is immune to the bug. Says Dr. Leroy Williamson, a DOA scientist in Honolulu: "Prior to the fruit flies, we had an abundance of fruit. Now we compete with these insects for our food...