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Hoes had not yet been invented, so the people of Jarmo planted their crops with weighted digging sticks and reaped them with flint sickles. They grew barley, two kinds of wheat and some sort of legume, probably peas. At first they ground grain by rubbing it with a stone in...
"Je Vous Ai Eu!" In his 31 years, Farouk I has become known principally as a glutton, a high-stakes gambler and a wolf. On the Riviera this summer, he has added diligently to his reputation. The Carlton Hotel (where he and his entourage occupy 32 rooms at $2,000...
Mosley was delighted with such big shows as Studio One ("a brilliant production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus"), Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman. He was equally taken by "more modest programs" like What's My Line, Blind Date, Hollywood Screen Test, Life Begins at Eighty. As for vulgarity: "Well...
At daily meetings with his ministers, Franco labored to set things aright. The government decided to take over the rice crop and sell it at a fixed price; price ceilings were put on dried beans, peas, lentils (the four Spanish food staples); and price "supervision" was decreed for fish, vegetables...
The order is a slicked-up version of the OPA regulations of World War II. To set a selling price for a can of peas, for example, the grocer looks at his wholesale cost, increases it by a fixed percentage taken from an official OPS markup list. The list covers...