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...know an American who survived five years in a Japanese prison camp by loading his thin soup with bugs; there is no telling what delights Julia Child could stir up. Since the insects outweigh us 12 to 1, they could keep us alive through many expanding and otherwise hungry generations...
...lunch, Mondale called our waitress by her first name. His naturalness plus the arrangement of the small tables gave the room a homey kitchen atmosphere, though a portion of the back wall was missing. Sipping soup from his spoon, Mondale explained: "...a bomb went off in the john." What I took as a joke, it turned out later, was actually true...
...making his decisions, Martin is confronted by a complex series of deadlines. Some biologists are worried that the "chicken soup"-a nutrient-rich broth that will be used to moisten samples of Martian soil to determine if they contain organisms-will not keep long enough for all of the experiments scheduled. Even more vexing, Viking 2 is scheduled to arrive at Mars and go into orbit on Aug. 7. That will crowd the schedule of the Viking 1 lander, which will not begin to conduct its experiments until eight days after it lands. Each of the experiments requires an eleven...
...article of faith among television people that what the medium does best is cover actuality live, from beginning to end. Sometimes, though, the results are not quite what was planned. The Public Broadcasting Service's soup-to-nuts (or, more accurately, lobster-to-mints) coverage of last week's White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth allowed the average American a singular opportunity to feel for himself the exquisite pain of the pointless state occasion, an agony of boredom heretofore reserved for the powerful and the well born. There was perhaps something salutary about the 4½ -hour experience...
...greatness, he has hardly been able to demonstrate them in the dubious debate about the strategic importance of the Panama Canal, or whether Henry Kissinger should stay or go, or just how big Big Government is or should be. A war like Viet Nam, 10% unemployment, Dust Bowls and soup lines make it easier to assess a potential President. It is hard for our politicians to live with success...