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...When Prohibition came, President August said: "We'll make shoelaces if we have to, but I'll never close this plant." Anheuser-Busch never had to make shoelaces, but it made "Bevo" (an unfermented, nonalcoholic drink that was supposed to taste like beer), near-beer, ginger ale, Grape Bouquet, root beer, "Kaffo" (a syrup for iced coffee), Busch "Tee," Carcho (a chocolate drink), starch, dextrine, corn products, malt syrup (for home brewing), and even refrigerator truck bodies and ice cream freezing units. In the end, it was yeast that pulled the company through, and today its yeast production...
...Look Foolish." Nothing came of it until last week when alert, 16s-lb. Quarterback LeBaron began whipping a squad of Pacific football seniors and alumni into shape. In the dead of winter, without the official blessing of either school, LeBaron was going to have his day in the Grape Bowl stadium in Lodi, Calif, against unpredictable, 175-lb. Engineer Celeri and a squad of California's Golden Bears. Three enterprising University of California students had promoted the game and in the first three days had sold 4,000 tickets at $2.50 apiece in the valley alone...
State of Siege. One night, in a village restaurant between the Black Sea and Ankara, my dinner was interrupted by a group of grizzled oldsters drinking raki (grape brandy). One called across the smoky room: "When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey...
...harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program, just like the expensive program in potatoes and flaxseed, is the result of Congress' love for price supports...
...nights later, after downing four predinner shots of bourbon at a Syrian home, Coates danced the dubbke ("No serious threat to the samba," he told his readers). He put away exotic dishes ranging from kibbee (lamb cake) and yabrac (grape leaves) to baklawa (pastry...