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Cabbage, potatoes, macaroni, kasha (cooked buckwheat), bread, fish, tea and a bit of meat normally make up the draftees' diet. On special holidays, fruit and jam are added. The troops down their fare quickly. Reason: The last to finish must clean the mess-hall table. Soviet draftees have little chance for female contact. While they can leave base one day each month, many do not do so, because the nearest village is often beyond walking distance. Longer furloughs are granted only as a special favor or for emergency reasons. On rare occasions, a divisional command may organize "social evenings...
Playful pictures of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster dot the walls, and there are Bert and Ernie dolls to hug. Children frown in concentration as they glue pieces of macaroni to construction paper. An egg carton is converted to a colorful pin wheel...
...blend of soybean and milk protein ingeniously ground up with a restaurant macaroni machine, the lobsters eagerly snapped up dinner with their claws -"sometimes just like hungry dogs," says Conklin. But the artificial diet, alas, produced almost snow-white lobsters (unlike the motley-colored beasts in nature). For anyone who thinks this might be objectionable, Conklin's advice: add a dash of paprika or some other natural coloring to the feed. That should turn them into redbacks even before they are cooked...
...schools can match the fiscal foresight of the law school of New York University, which bought a New Jersey noodle factory in 1947 for $3.5 million. After receiving millions in profits over the years from the sale of spaghetti and macaroni, the school sold the company for $115 million in 1976. That may be the only use of pasta to finance higher education, but other novel strategies for coping with the fiscal crunch have yeasted up all over. Among them...
Sadat begins to tire noticeably, aides say, late in the afternoon. He has his one big meal of the day, in the American style, between six and seven o'clock: because of his tender stomach, it is normally a dish of simple, boiled food-this time macaroni imported from Italy and rice. Every evening without fail, Sadat schedules two movies, mostly American westerns; he watches them, usually alone, in his pajamas. He leads an ungaudy life, really, but Sadat's comfortable residences and stylish clothes-as well as his glamorous wife-have drawn disapproving mutters from the public...