Word: milk
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...countries that have a lot of cows, politicians sooner or later must take a position on milk. Even Sir Winston Churchill, who personally prefers strong stuff, gave a limited endorsement to milk: "There is no finer investment for any community to make than putting milk into babies." France's Premier (1954-55) Pierre Mendès-France urged his countrymen to give up wine in favor of milk; most Frenchmen considered Lactophile Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed...
Last week John F. Kennedy got into the act. Appearing before the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition in Washington, the President sipped a foaming glass of milk in public. "I have long been convinced," he said, "that milk is an important aid to good health. This has led me to direct that milk be served at every White House meal from now on." The same day, at a White House luncheon for a group of publishers and editors, the President almost tripped up: no milk was served until the U.P.I.'s abstemious Lyle Wilson, refusing...
President Kennedy's pro-milk demonstration was made at the urgent request of the Agriculture Department. Last year, it seems, the U.S.'s 46 million cows contentedly did their duty-but the U.S. public did not. To be sure, Americans put away some 26.4 billion quarts of milk (enough to keep Niagara's Horseshoe Falls flowing at the usual rate for one hour), but that was about 35 million quarts down from the previous year. If that trend continues, the U.S. taxpayer will almost certainly have to fork out even more than the $300 million paid...
...office at curtain time can generally plunk down their money and walk right in. One night last week, for example, only three of Broadway's 29 shows were sold out by 5 130: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Night of the Iguana and Milk and Honey. (Since the most publicized shows are the ones that nearly all out-of-town visitors want to see. the impossible-ticket myth has spread all over the U.S.) Tickets were available not only for long-running shows (Camelot, Mary, Mary) but also for new productions: Ross, A Shot...
...West Germany continued to enjoy its brightly lit prosperity, the eastern half of the divided country was in gloomy want. As the weather turned colder, there were official warnings against the use of electric heaters because of East Germany's power shortage. Shops were short of shoes. Butter, milk and meat were hard to find in many cities. The papers kept reporting arrests of "economic criminals"; one 69-year-old woman in Dresden drew 15 months for hoarding food, and in Frankfurt-on-Oder a man who burned down two barns full of corn was sentenced to death...