Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buffet luncheon (orange juice, lemon ice, roast beef, ham, candied sweet potatoes, potato salad, peas, asparagus, mushrooms, lettuce, onions, whole-wheat rolls, fresh strawberry pie), the President protested, "Oh, my belt line!" He had just gone on a diet, he said, but at 182 lbs. he is still 6 lbs. overweight. In a mellow, after-meal mood, the guest of honor told Beltsville's hands that he stood firmly behind the kind of research they were doing. Someone mentioned the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who had once been Agriculture Department information director (1928-40). Chuckling...
...Potato (Cont...
...near Krems, Austria. But any similarity between the actual Stalag and its dramatic counterpart is mostly coincidental. In the movie, the fictional events range from suspense (Who is the Nazi spy posing as an American prisoner in Barracks 4?) to out & out slapstick (P.W.s making schnapps out of potato peelings and string, washing socks in a pot of watery soup, lining up at a homemade telescope to gawk at Russian women prisoners taking delousing showers...
...Potato...
...Potato" story [TIME, April 27] raised my blood pressure to the boiling point! As a citizen of Illinois, [a public school with Roman Catholic nuns as teachers] is not "perfectly acceptable," and I would like to know what can be done to stop this sort of thing...