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Along with the rest of the Islamic world, Iranians last week began their monthlong observance of Ramadan, when devout Muslims are expected to fast from dawn until sunset. The new revolutionary government in Tehran did its best to ensure that the fast was observed Restaurants and snack bars closed during the daylight hours. The Minister of Interior ordered police to arrest anybody caught eating, drinking or smoking in public. Shutters were also drawn on the country's cinemas and few remaining theaters. Regular radio and television programming was suspended in favor of religious readings from the Koran...
Thursday morning brought the Pope back to Wadowice (pop. 15,000), where he was born and grew up. The village's central plaza was officially renamed Red Army Square, but the townspeople still call it Market Square. The Pope had a quick snack as he chatted with Monsignor Edward Zacher, the aging priest who was the Pope's first religious instructor. He also went to see the font where he was baptized...
...innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have found his strongest comic voice. A distant cousin to Lenny Bruce's abrasive small-timer bombing at the London Palladium, Tony is the dark side of every comic. He is also...
Sixty-one per cent of the 705 freshmen polled also said they favor varied meal plans with a computerized meal credit plan, where students missing meals could use their credits at a University snack...
...ground beef. The junk food had to go. And we're using leftovers wherever we can. Yesterday we had a chefs salad for dinner. Sunday it was a casserole because we can get two meals out of it." Philadelphia Quality Control Technician Leo Valz has tired of supplying expensive snacks for his three children. Solution: do-it-yourself pizzas costing $16 for 24 shells, a big can of tomato sauce and a big bag of cheese. Says Valz: "A nighttime snack doesn't break our backs any more. I just wish they sold make-it-yourself steaks...