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...Mary M. Lassen '75, Harvard-Radcliffe coordinator for UFW, said that the proportion of UFW lettuce on the market has dropped from 15 to 10 per cent...
...present," Lassen said, "there are only two restaurants in the Harvard Square area which use UFW lettuce... Underdog and Casa Mexico...
...routes of Southern Europe, drinking in the influence of other cultures, Munich has always been chiefly absorbed with the manufacture and enjoyment of Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (some of which is identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...
...Word. Gentry, meanwhile, moved to California and bought back from Sovex for $1,500 the granola rights for states west of the Rockies. Then he sold the California territory for $18,000 to Lassen Foods of Chico, Calif. At last count, Lassen's annual sales of granola were $3 million and the company has installed a bank of specially built ovens to bake the stuff. Gentry also took off for Australia, western Canada and Hawaii planting granola seeds, in the form of royalty arrangements with local health-food manufacturers, as he went. His latest deal was with Breads...
Ishi belonged to a small tribe, the Yahi, who lived in the scrub-tangled foothills of volcanic Lassen Peak, high in the Cascade Range. Early Spanish and Mexican settlers had little contact with the Yahi, but the gold seekers who flooded California in the 1850s hunted them down like wild animals. The Yahi had no guns; they fought their pathetic best with stone-tipped spears and arrows, but by 1872 they were believed extinct. A dozen years later, ranchers in the foothills began to miss occasional calves and sheep, and sometimes caches of food were pilfered from mountain cabins. Rumors...