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...species of mushrooms that grow in France, 39 are poisonous. This slight but real possibility of toxic consequence has little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
Endeavoring to explode old wives' tales about how to tell a poison mushroom (one wrong example: if it turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served...
...Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum and Mobil Oil built a $56 million refinery that started cracking at Mersin on the southern coast last year. Recently Goodrich, U.S. Rubber and Italy's Pirelli set up plants in Turkey, and Chrysler will soon begin to assemble trucks. German businessmen opened a mushroom cannery and French entrepreneurs, discovering that Turkey is acrawl with snails, started canning escargots...
Besides comedy characters, Bustelli molded Turks and Chinese, cherubs and beggars, a mushroom venderess and a mousetrap vendor. Together, his figurines make up a cross section of the rococo age. Shortly after Bustelli's death, rococo faded away, leaving an enduring trace in the spirited forms and vibrant colors preserved beneath the glaze of an obscure artist's figurines...
Chief reasons for the coin shortage are the growing population, the increased gross national product, the proliferation of vending machines and parking meters, and the penny-gobbling of local sales taxes. A factor that is harder to measure is the mushroom growth of one of America's fastest-growing hobbies-numismatics...