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...rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
People in Private Cars. The deserted road was a grim reminder of the threat which the Huks represent for the young republic. Along it dozens of villages were deserted. Fruit rotted on mango and papaya trees. Fields were reverting to jungle. The Huks sack villages, carry off all their food and many of their young men to the Huk mountain hideouts. The U.S.-educated provincial governor, Juan Chioco, told me that nearly 150,000 people of the 500,000 in Nueva Ecija province have been forced to flee their homes...
Bread & Poems. Black Bart was not the first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half...
...Sack Suit. The people are fascinated and curious to meet their ex-god in the flesh. Said a Nagasaki official: "No wonder the people are excited and happy. This is the first time they have really seen the Emperor. Before, we had to bow deeply when he passed. By the time we looked up he was already gone." In the country one old woman walked beside the Emperor for several minutes, staring at him in disbelief because he did not wear a uniform. Explained a Japanese journalist: "Now he is the sebiro no Tenno [Emperor in a sack suit]. Before...
Largely as a promotion stunt for the new strip, the newspaper ran a voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called...