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...employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf was successfully negotiating one way or another with every type of company, from sausage makers to rug layers. He might have enemies angry enough to roast him alive...
Insectarian. In Philadelphia, a burglar broke into a market, took 72 cans of assorted fried ants, baby bees, fried butterflies, smoked octopus, fried worms, smoked frogs' legs, roast caterpillars...
Nearly one-fourth of the postwar immigrants have settled in Toronto, and they have made their mark there. In a city long accustomed to dining out on roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, new restaurants with such names as Czarda, Moulin Rouge and House of Fujimatsu add variety to the bill of fare. Some 20 foreign-language newspapers cater to the newcomers, and the sports pages in the city's dailies report the scores of soccer games between teams named the Polish White Eagles or the Ulster Uniteds...
Lemonade Lather. By the molten chocolate ribbon of the mighty Mekong River, Co Ha and the bridegroom whom her father had selected sat down before a long table set out with roast chickens, pig, steaming white rice, and jar after jar of yellow rice wine and white-lightning chum-chum. Despite the wedding finery that set off her lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love...
From Maine to California, the Republicans last week kicked off their 1958 congressional campaign in a big display of televised speechmaking, with Dwight Eisenhower as the evening's coaxial keynoter. The President flew into Chicago in a snowstorm, sat down to a $100-a-plate dinner (cold roast beef and string beans) with 5,400 Republicans at the huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said...