Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles. Ho Chi Minh's Communist Lao Dong party is divided between its pro-Moscow and pro-Peking factions, and "Uncle" Ho has his hands full keeping things in balance. Rice rations were trimmed last month for the third time in a year, sugar grows increasingly short, meat is a luxury available only to the army and select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh continues to direct and aid the subversive...
...competition. One of the most remarkable of the capitalistic comrades who are putting the dynamics of the free market to work under Communism is a former partisan fighter and devoted Communist named Velimir Marton. With a spirit and shrewdness that any businessman could envy, Marton took over a small meat-packing plant in the early 1950s, and has turned it into Yugoslavia's largest food company...
...sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights in Israel on Saturdays or religious holidays, and its galleys may serve only kosher food, a puzzlement to Gentile passengers, who find they must drink their coffee black after a meal of meat or chicken. Dr. Nissim recently earned considerable unpopularity when he forced the new Israeli liner Shalom to operate with kosher kitchens exclusively...
...faith belongs to the lyrical sonorities of the Book of Common Prayer or the incantatory praises to life of the Song of Solomon, which delights equally in woman and God. The grace-before-meat he says in his own house is likely to pay a tribute in doubtful Latin to the quality of the roast. Like a missionary...
Wrinkle preparations are as old as vanity, and over the centuries have been concocted from wax, incense, ale, bread, synthetic hormones, turtle oils and placenta extracts. The latest lotions are made from, of all things, cows' blood. Developed by the research laboratories of meat-packing Armour & Co., the process uses proteins drawn from the blood to temporarily smooth and fill in furrows, much like a glossy, translucent mudpack. The lotions are invisible on the face, because they react to light the same way that human skin does...