Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany, mother's milk is a government-subsidized commodity; by law, working mothers get three months' pregnancy leave at full pay, plus more paid vacation if they nurse the baby. Bonn's vested interest in breast feeding is the result of the most thorough welfare state in the West, with the possible exception of Sweden. Though Ludwig Erhard's Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) has sometimes created the impression that West Germany is a wonderland of freewheeling laissez faire, the German people are in fact pampered and cosseted with social benefits from maternity to eternity. But today...
...kind word to say for any woman he ever worked with," says Elaine bitterly. In fact, a little cloud of H25O4 does seem to hover over Laurence Harvey's head, sprinkling down on all around him, especially women. But he generally has the grace to pour a little milk after the acid. A Walk on the Wild Side he remembers as "a ghastly film, made more so by that ghastly woman Capucine," but he adds: "I suppose it's not her fault she can't act." And he thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March...
...buck, Halas has been known to wrestle fans for the football after extra-point plays, and a player on a visiting team once complained that Halas provided only two bars of soap for 36 players. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk " Halas gallantly replied: "What's his address? I'll send him a quart...
Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet "honeydew" secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...
Burgess postulates an earth of perhaps two or three hundred years in the future. Overpopulation is the all but in soluble problem. Cities have swallowed the earth; food, when it is to be had, is limited to processed fish, meat and milk substitutes (meat and dairy animals require too much land...