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...beliefs as to modernize the industry. That nationalization will reform British steel is doubtful, but private industry has done little in the 13 years since steel was denationalized, and few would disagree with the Observer that "British steel is a mess." Now, even in the British domestic market, imported pig iron, at $53.20 a ton, undersells the local stuff...
...established only since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject the pig...
...couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl-only to find half the French press corps camped in Papeete for the latest French A-bomb tests. So now the honeymooners chartered a yacht and sailed away among the islands, feasting on roast pig and gazing at the mushroom clouds...
...children's classic about the physician who talks to animals, as a $12 million 20th Century-Fox musical extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi-pullyu will be re-created by two llamas, artfully superimposed on film back to back. Under the circumstances, what could be more natural than for Jacobs to cast Castle Combe...
...Dissent. Koningsberger found the people looking well fed and clothed. Shops seemed well stocked; there was no "atmosphere of scarcity," despite contradictory evidence of rationed rice and cloth. No "blue ants slaving away" -except for the familiar "drag coolies" hauling inhuman loads of coal and pig iron. No beggars anywhere, no flies even on manure heaps. The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant-few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels. Soldiers with guns nowhere to be seen. In short, "the daily comings and goings of the people look terribly...