Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began as just another week of heat and torpor in the Congo. Sweating natives, as usual, loaded palm kernels into boats at upcountry river stations, while understaffed United Nations teams passed out powdered milk to babies and urged the villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag...
...Milk and Honey flows, in exuberant song and dance, out of a fresh ethnic locale, Israel. Comedienne Molly Picon and Singers Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell star with elan, but the plot is strictly matzo-ball soup opera...
...next stop was the Kiamachi Valley in Oklahoma's Choctaw country, where a highway dedication ceremony was scheduled. "Usually the most exciting thing ever happens around here is when the milk truck comes through," said Nat H. Crosby, the proprietor of the local gas station. "That guy comes through and scatters the chickens good." As the President winged over the Ozarks, the chickens were securely penned, and the Valley was in a tizzy of excitement...
...subsequent preoccupation with little people jabbering in little rooms has begun to trouble him slightly. The form might too easily change to formula, diluting itself until he writes a play with "two old ladies in a room, arguing over a glass of milk." But he has no patience for critics who think nothing much is going on in his rooms. "A character," he says, "who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behavior, or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention...
...President J. Huber Wetenhall, 60, will become chief executive officer of New York's National Dairy Products Corp. (Kraft, Sealtest, Breakstone Foods), succeeding Chairman Edward E. Stewart, who retires next month. Reticent Huber Wetenhall moves in at a time when, except for the New York City milk strike, National Dairy is doing better than ever: sales for the first nine months hit a record $1.3 billion...