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...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberation Alliance passed out signs saying "Murderer" in red and threw a variety of objects, including wads of paper and fruit rinds, at the stage in their successful attempt to turn the teach-in into an antiwar demonstration...
...misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz., informs members of new issues. Novice collectors can seek guidance in books like Collecting Bottles, which covers the field, or Fruit Jars, which gets down to such specifics as how to tell a double safety from an acme...
...supply list suggested not so much a banquet as the formation of Democratic labor battalions to march on Republican strongholds. For the guests' delectation, there were 11,000 filet mignons, 3,500 lbs. of potatoes and 1,800 lbs. of carrots. The appetizer was 2,200 lbs. of fruit cocktail. Desserts: 11,000 créme de menthe parfaits. Lest throats become parched, 2,010 qt. of liquor and 130 cases of beer were readied at 80 bars...
...over Europe, consumers are developing a taste-and paying premium prices-for American food products. Despite stiff trade barriers erected by the Common Market, shipments of American fresh fruit to Europe were worth $32 million in 1970, up almost 40% from 1968. The demand is at its peak right now, when much of the produce grown in California, Florida and Texas is out of season on the Continent...
...rise to the top: Mayfair restaurants pay up to $2.16 per lb. for American asparagus and charge diners $3.30 per serving of seven sticks. French shoppers have learned to ask for Indian River grapefruit by name, even though the Florida product costs 35? each, twice the price of Mediterranean fruit. Among the most popular U.S. foods are innards like liver, hearts and kidneys. Europeans regard them as delicacies, particularly the cheap young American variety, and import $40 million worth a year. The French transform some of the pork liver into high-priced páté-and sell it back...