Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station toward tougher camps, V.C. Tower proved as palatable as an enemy prison can reasonably be expected to be. Dodson and Eckes ate their meals (rice laced with snails, caterpillars or snake meat) with the camp director and their guards, played cards and sometimes sang (a favorite tune: The Animals' We Gotta Get out of This Place). Attempts were made to interrogate them, but when they refused to answer, the V.C. did not press them further. A specialist in acupuncture stuck pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped...
...Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were Moët & Chandon champagne...
...teaser . . . she only played one-night stands"). If that doesn't shake up the Beatles' fans, then the cover of their latest album would. It is a photograph of the famous four wearing butchers' smocks and laden with chunks of raw meat and the bodies of decapitated dolls. The first reaction to the cover in the U.S. was so violent that Capitol Records pulled it off the market, explaining that it was a misguided attempt at "pop-art satire...
...Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated's second acquisition in 1966 (the other: E. Kahn's Sons of Cincinnati, a meat processor with sales of $45 million) and the 44th since Cummings organized the company 26 years ago. Now the U.S.'s fastest-growing food processor, Consolidated will end its fiscal year next week with sales of $830 million and earnings of around $21 million, up 5% and 17% respectively...
Like a Nation. Significantly, Unilever has catered to Africa's desire to upgrade itself by moving into manufacturing and more advanced marketing. From Malawi to the Ivory Coast, it makes cosmetics, brews beer and packs meat-all of which it sells in Unilever stores. In Nigeria, U.A.C. subsidiaries assemble Willys Jeeps and six-wheel "mammy wagons," produce 80% of the country's corrugated paperboard and containers, also dominate the marketing of bicycles and building materials, and sell telecommunications equipment and earth-moving machinery. In a way, Unilever is as powerful as a nation. The largest employer in tropical...