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...Leftovers. The microwave ovens will never take over in restaurants that consider a meal something of an art as well as very much of a commodity; they sell best where speed and convenience count more than cuisine. Many restaurants, hotels, motels, hospitals, factory cafeterias, railroad dining cars, snack bars and hamburger stands are now turning to high-speed electronic ovens -and the ovens are even being installed in vending machines that serve hot sandwiches. Such electronic giants as General Electric, Raytheon, Litton Industries and Tappan are in the field, competing with at least three smaller firms. Sales...
Along the way to the happy ending, several scenes are stolen by a disarming cinemoppet named Claire Wilcox. Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals. To make a snack, she lines up four plates on the table, puts bread on one, lettuce on another, tuna on a third, mayonnaise on the fourth. Then she starts nibbling from each plate in sequence. "It's a sandwich," she explains, "only the food isn't touching...
Whenever an American housewife uses a detergent, an African woman buys a mammy cloth, or an Englishman pops into a fish-and-chips shop for a snack, the chances are good that the company that will profit is a corporate colossus called Unilever...
...market for Argentine beef will double to 820,000 tons a year. But by then, the report says, Argentina will have only 300,000 tons available for export. Reason: the Argentines themselves will be eating up too much of the output. They can buy a good steak for 45?, snack between meals on succulent beef sausages, and already lead the world in beef consumption (178 Ibs. per person). The report glumly concludes that some way will have to be found to make beef less appealing to the locals...
...initial weeks of the Chorus' existence were not entirely devoted to rehearsal, although most of it was spent in song. When not rehearsing, the members flocked together around guitars and recorders. Singing in busses, men's rooms, snack counters, and the lake shores of Tanglewood, they continually attracted attention...