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...stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia's traditional diet-steak and eggs, with tomato sauce poured over it-can dine on sukiyaki, entrecote a la bordelaise, or Koenigs-berger Klops. And at his new $500,000 pasta factory in Brisbane, Sicilian-born Frank de Pasquale complacently estimates that where only 5% of Australians ate spaghetti ten years ago, some 65% do now. There are other signs that "culture." though a suspect word, is a spreading fact. Since 1939, the number of college students has risen from...
...ordinary Italian worker, whose weekly salary all goes for rent and pasta, the only hope for retirement is a pension -meager at best and by no means automatic. If he is privately employed, his fate is in the hands of a monstrous, Kafkaesque government bureau whose paper-shuffling overhead is so high that a man whose employer has paid in $15,000 on his behalf over a 30-year period will receive only $3,000 of it when he retires. The one Italian worker in eight who is a government employee fares somewhat better: provided he works nearly 20 years...
...methods to sell U.S. crop surpluses. Feed growers are prowling Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...
...Italian cannot look dignified while eating pasta...
...Giovanni Cazzarolli, the Pastificio Pantanella Co. and Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, who is Pastificio's legal eagle as well as a nephew of Pope Pius XII. La Callas, 31, weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed by the pasta firm in ads, stating that she had shed an unsvelte 44 Ibs. by gobbling quantities of Pastificio Pantanella's dietetic, "no-cal" macaroni. Maria fumed a scornful phooey on "the physiological pasta." The prima donna, who once declined singing Madame Butterfly because she scaled an unlepidopterous 212 Ibs., now complained...