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...trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
Moscow prepared this week for its gay est Easter since the Bolshevik revolution.† New bells and bells long silent will ring out from the gilt onion domes of the city's churches, whose fresh paint will be ornamented with red and white flowers, hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical...
...Atomic physicists generally do not see a pos sibility of producing an atomic e-:-)'onion from the light elements (hydrogen, heHum. etc.) - in which lies the danger of some atom!c experiment accidentally blowing up the whole e?rth. Says...
...Greek art exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, 2,500 Londoners a day plunked down a shilling each. They got their shilling's worth. Mostly lent by private collectors-including 17 19th-Century paintings from King George's collection-the exhibition covered Greek art from an onion-smooth, onion-shaped head, carved about 3000 B.C., to a painting of Greek resistance fighters of World War II. The Royal Academy show did not compare with the Elgin marbles in the British Museum, but it seemed a wonderful enough world of happy, half-naked, carefree athletes to give most...
...used to weigh over 200 Ibs., but has lost 50 of them, largely by daily rides on an electric bicycle in her apartment overlooking Central Park. She still eats as many steaks as she can find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing in German. Walter introduced...