Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decaying, slate-roofed houses, without telephones, cars or even a policeman. Life has changed little since Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, creating a path that many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
...political, economic and cultural growth. But when, beginning with a food crisis in October, Gomulka began tightening the economic screws again, Rosenthal reported that trend with equal accuracy. Filing stories that the heavily censored Polish press dared not print, Rosenthal disclosed that the Soviet Union was sending meat to Poland to meet the food shortage. He wrote a complete account of the denunciation by the Soviet Ambassador to Poland of the Polish press for its admiration of Western literature, films and art. He described in detail both the chilly welcome given to visiting Premier Nikita Khrushchev in July...
...giant, U.S. sense, rarely have more than 3,000 sq. ft. of floor space (v. 10,000 for the average U.S. super), stock only an average of 1,000 to 2,000 items (v. 5,600 in U.S. markets). Some stores still do not sell frozen foods, leave the meat to the outside butcher; only a few are big enough to produce their own brands of canned goods. But they all have one thing in common with U.S. markets: high-volume, low-markup operations, which give customers more for their money and the operators more profit...
...Meat in the Soup. Similar evidence that religion in Russia is alive is provided by one of the latest Soviet novels to reach the West (via an Italian translation). The Miraculous Icon is a 19th century moral tale in reverse: hero sinks down and down into the depths of Christianity, is saved in the nick of time by conversion to clear-eyed atheism...
...atheists"); he has his own sophisticated recipe for the conversion of Russia. "We must make it so that the last of the old ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes for winter, then-radio, electricity, books, movies. Against this, Mister God can't hold out long...