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...INVITATION was for a tree-trimming party. With Christmas fast approaching, it conjured up images of spruce and holly, punch and sugar cookies, and strings of popcorn and berries. All of these were, in fact, present when I arrived at Radcliffe President Matina Horner's house, but without their usual emotional accompaniment--the exuberance and communality that tends to infuse holiday gatherings. And as I left the party, lacking my accustomed share of "Christmas spirit." I began to wonder what had created such a feeling of hesitancy on an occasion which differed from countless others I had attended in only...
With mid new flavors available, U.S. popcorn sales explode
Contributor John Skow, who wrote this week's cover story, regards popcorn and Paul Newman as inseparable, twin treasures of the moviehouse. Skow was nonetheless surprised to find himself sitting in an office of Newman's Salad King Inc. as the actor blithely demonstrated his definitive technique for buttering popcorn. Recalls Skow: "He wielded his knife at a precisely calculated angle, wriggled it meticulously while splashing droplets of butter on everything in sight, and then invited me to try it." Sampling two brands of popcorn that Newman hoped to market, Skow and his host rejected both. "One option...
...Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump up to prepare a bowl of popcorn. Says Worrell: "He is hyper and whimsical. But he wears his humor like armor; underneath, he is serious about his activism and his acting...
...coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied for the storage of surplus grain. A few Iowa farmers are even planning to burn corn instead of oil in their furnaces this winter, and government officials in Nebraska are promoting the use of popcorn as a packing material. Says one Cornhusker official: "Gotta get rid of the damn corn somehow...