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...Kingdom last week, other young people, grown to maturity in an age of snoek, whale meat and endless Brussels sprouts, were relearning the wonders of red meat, roasted to crackling brown and served in a sea of tangy juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
Oder-Neisse line. In return, he got a congratulatory telegram from Vishinsky, two villas, a ration of 15 bottles of schnapps and 350 U.S. cigarettes monthly, and two mistresses. Every Thursday he enjoyed an all-night vodka bout with Russian Political Chief Vladimir Semenov. "What can happen to me?" he used to say. "If the Russians stay on top, I'll stay on top. If the Americans win, I'll just be taken to a camp and go on smoking Chesterfields...
After a tough day sloughing through the Guadalcanal jungle, the 1944 G.I. probably found Up in Arms a blissful picture of what war might be. But ten years later, it is only a painful reminder of the low points in mass-produced wartime movies. The ingredients of this Kaye-ration are the West Coast conception of a soldier's delight: slapstick, music, sex, and patriotism. Luckily, the comedy is provided by the master of them all and Danny Kaye's git-gat-gittle and patter songs are as good now as when Sam Goldwyn first plucked him off Broadway...
...species usually found in the West. A veteran hiker passed out information about how to survive on sumac berries and roots. Another hiker urged his fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot...
Though the strike lasted only one day, it was nonetheless disturbing. It was the third such walkout France had seen in four months, and it was obviously not to be the last. Last week the Fédération d'Education Nationale, the French teachers' union, solemnly announced that there would soon be another-unless the government finally comes to grips with the nation's rapidly deteriorating education system...