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Khrushchev: Life is a great teacher. If you come to tell me that Italian macaroni is better than Russian kvass† you don't show much eagerness to reach an agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: In Dispraise of Macaroni | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Beautiful Name. Every Frenchman, rich or poor, peasant or city dweller, would feel the effect. Without food subsidies the price of bread would rise 6%, milk 5%, macaroni 10%. Without government subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Hard Course | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

These are of course isolated instances; but the fact remains that there is little consideration for Central Kitcheners. Vanilla is a popular flavor; but its constant repetition is just the "bland leading the bland," and macaroni with lemon meringue pie is--to phrase it softly--a highly original combination...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Remember the Neediest | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

...opening of the deer season) and shot Bernice Worden, 58, proprietor of a general store, with a .22 rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee and cookies) with his neighbors the Hills when the police arrived to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Portrait of a Killer | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...touring widely. He studied in Paris fled to Switzerland during the war; by the time postwar Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti had a remarkable ability, as his teacher Nadia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lipatti's Last | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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