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After that debacle, cranberry growers decided that they needed a broader base for their industry, began to push the berries as a year-round dish. Two years ago they hired as Ocean Spray's general manager Edward Gelsthorpe, a sharp product executive with Colgate-Palmolive and a summertime sailor who was attracted by the idea of living year-round on Cape Cod. Gelsthorpe was also attracted by Ocean Spray's possibilities. "It took only superficial analysis," he says, "to realize how little had been done with cranberries...
...SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA by Yukio Mishima. 181 pages. Knopf...
...press gangs roamed the country, seized any able-bodied men that caught their eyes, and flung them aboard ships that, Dugan writes, were "not built to fit men; the men were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many a country town, an old sailor was readily identifiable by his severe stoop, the result of spending years in the orlop (overlap) deck, which sometimes offered no more than four feet of headroom...
...Kuku will part with a harebrained outfit consisting of rabbit hip-huggers in black-and-white checks, topped with a rabbit halter and black-and-white striped jacket. For slightly more, a girl can pick up a striking Indian-kid coat that is shaped like a sailor's pea jacket, or an imitation-cheetah walking suit made of calfskin...
...relations with the U.S. Many Turks are still angry at Lyndon Johnson's refusal last year to help Turkey win its way in Cyprus by force. Newspapers regularly play up every real or fancied slight to the nation's honor by U.S. military personnel (one sailor is currently awaiting trial on a charge of insulting Turkey by blowing his nose on a small souvenir flag...