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...sounds, vaguely familiar, echo in the void: Patti Page and the Tennessee Waltz; Jo Stafford and Shrimp Boats; Rosemary Clooney and Come On-a My House. Elvis, Bobby Darin, Fabian with a slew of golden oldies. At the drive-ins, American Graffiti and The Lords of Flatbush re-create the oleaginous pompadours and switchblade rhetoric of the Shook-Up Epoch. In affluent circles there are Fabulous '50s parties: the debutantes rigged out in calf-length skirts and open-toed, high-heeled numbers, and their dates in narrow ties and pink shirts and trousers that bag at the ankle...
...future, Ryther also plans to raise abalone as well as brine shrimp, which could be used to nourish rainbow trout...
...this one is excellent and probably the most reasonably priced around Boston. It is advisable to get there early since a two-hour wait later in the evening is not unusual. But if forced to wait, the clam bar upstairs is not a bad place to do it. The shrimp in garlic is one of the menu's highlights, and a bucket of steamers is always a good and relatively inexpensive dinner. All the salt water entrees are fresh, of course. The Legal Sweetshop is also worth a visit...
...basked in the prime-time televised applause of broadcast executives in Houston. He startled a waitress, "Shrimp" Hamilton, by dropping in at the lunch counter of Houston's Keystone Drugstore to buy a cup of coffee and a 6-oz. jar of hot "Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...
...sent abroad. The Japanese have bought about 1,800,000 bales, 2½ times their normal purchase. The U.S. Government no longer permits the Japanese to convert their huge hoard of dollars into gold, and so they are moving their money instead into such commodities as soybeans, wheat, shrimp-and cotton. In addition, China, hit by a bad crop, is buying unexpectedly large amounts of American cotton-700,000 bales this year...