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...supply of food from a carefully drawn list and then sent their orders to Washington. Processed by a computer, the orders go back to shipping offices in the five cities, and the food is delivered. Container labels give no clue to the precise ingredients in such items as salad dressings, cake mixes and milk concentrates...
BENNY GOODMAN QUARTET: TOGETHER AGAIN (RCA Victor). A lot has happened both in and out of jazz since the salad days of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. But here they are, sounding much the same 25 years later. Goodman fans will treasure new versions of Runnin' Wild, Somebody Loves Me, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. But something is missing-a sense of discovery. Perhaps the trouble is that the pieces sound light and facile, like the right thing said once too often...
...Angeles Entrepreneur Norton Simon, a self-made millionaire, has few rivals among U.S. businessmen in the variety of his financial interests. They spread from his $400 million-a-year Hunt Foods & Industries through steel, salad oil, matches, paint and publishing. Yet Simon seldom stops in his search for new horizons, and last week he moved deftly in two widely different directions...
...Maldives sound like something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most...
...Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied down and destroyed...