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...missionary in Kerala, India for 17 years, I disagree that "the vast majority" of the catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...
Even so, Indians often ignore available food. Though Kerala fishermen haul in tons of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines each year from the fish-rich Arabian Sea, the vast majority of the catch is sold for export, and Keralans use the money to buy extra rice at exorbitant black-market prices. They also largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India...
...James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
...swear she's still fascinating. Maybe it's the canals." Trish Hilton's mother, Mrs. Horace Schmidlapp, said Suzy, turned up at her own party in "some red-hot Galitzine pajamas with no neck at all. There was an awful lot of Mummy showing because, holy mackerel, when that Galitzine gets those scissors out, she cuts out all the backs and all the fronts of everything. Oh well, it was a hot night, and Mummy looked dreamy...
Sprat & Schilling. For the Soviets, who insisted on Austria's military neutrality in the treaty, it was a gamble, or, as one observer put it, "the Danubian sprat to catch a fatter German mackerel." But Germany has not reunited on the Austrian model, and Austria has become a thriving monument to capitalism. More than 80% of its soaring foreign trade is with the West, and the schilling is one of the free world's soundest currencies, backed 125% by gold and foreign-exchange reserves...