Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeated Democratic Senator Pierre Salinger last week announced his resignation, effective Dec. 31. He will take a job as vice president of Beverly Hills' National General Corp., a highly diversified company that operates movie houses in 16 states, deals in real estate and concert talent, and packages candied fruit. Quipped Salinger, 39: "I may be the youngest living ex-Senator in history." Salinger also disclosed that California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown had promised to appoint Republican Senator-elect George Murphy, who beat Pierre in the Nov. 3 election, to fill Salinger's vacancy. That would give...
...associate: "He gets a real kick out of manipulating cattle from one pasture to another." He also enjoys food in quantity. When he speaks of a "couple of hamburgers" for lunch, it turns out to be thick chunks of roast round steak, rolls, iced tea, jalapenos, peas, fried potatoes, fruit cake, and cottage cheese salad...
...each afternoon there is a "cocktail hour" (milk, chocolate milk, fruit juices); on Wednesday evenings a "soirée" (plays put on by the children); the days are filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...
...companies who discreetly proscribe bottled cheer but want to reach the recipient through taste buds, there are Southern hams, Texas pecans, or fruits packed by more than a dozen Florida and California growers. Santa Clara's Day & Young, Inc. offers a "Royal Feast" that costs $21.95 and includes two smoked pheasants, two cheeses and four jars of marinated artichoke hearts. Busiest fruit packer of all is 64-year-old "Harry & David" of Medford, Ore., whose business annually exceeds $10 million and whose corporate orders often total $25,000 at a clip...
...that made convenience foods popular in the U.S.: growing incomes, less domestic help, more women away at work, changing tastes. Many foreigners, of course, do not take to such American gastronomic institutions as peanut butter and TV dinners, and some are still wary of canned goods. But American-type fruit juice, instant desserts, frozen chicken, ketchup, canned and packaged soups and precooked rice have won a prominent place on foreign shelves...