Word: milked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas-and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
...Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment, says Biafran Chief Justice Louis Mbanefo, "we would not touch...
...guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about 1,000 tons of their powdered milk and eggs, baby food and other supplies have piled up in Fernando Po, awaiting reshipment. Meantime, Gowon's agents are reportedly trying to stop flights by offering the pilots as much as $100,000 to hijack and sabotage the planes...
Wesselmann is nothing if not thorough, and the show's inventory includes: 36 painted toenails, 13 breasts, eleven legs and eight pairs of lips; he adds for good measure six oranges, three cigarettes, two radios, two pop bottles, one toilet seat, one hero sandwich, one glass of milk, one Volkswagen and one lemon. Altogether, the lot amply illustrates that, as Director Jan van der Marck observes, "Wesselmann shows woman as the consumer, both consuming and being consumed...
...named Lobsinger tells a Lions Club meeting that the ghetto riots there were "training exercises" for a Communist takeover of the U.S., and that prudent citizens should 1) arm themselves, and 2) lay in a one-month supply of beans, canned foods, brewers' yeast, pet food, evaporated milk, whisky, toilet paper, soap and "haircutting tools" for use during the coming disorders. After the meeting, a club member tells Wakefield: "Hell, on my block we're already armed...