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...sour as a boy in Vian, Okla. He and his four brothers, two sisters and mother lived on relief checks after his father left home. In the seventh grade, Robert Ussery, aged 13, dropped out and started pulling his own weight. He shined shoes in the winter, picked spinach in the summer-and grimly made up his mind to get shoes of his own and the kind of spinach you can spend. As soon as he figured out that 5 ft. 3 in. was as tall as he was going to be, he gave up the idea of basketball...
...gigolo is laboriously identified with the death of the heart in contemporary civilization. And his hackles will surely rise when the whole pretentious mess is blamed on him. In an epilogue addressed to the public the hero peevishly announces: "I leave a stain upon you, an indelible stain." Spinach, perhaps...
Pickled Okra & Oil Lamps. In some ways, Lady Bird's tastes are militantly homespun. Her favorite recipes are for turkey dressing, spinach souffle, double divinity and pickled okra. She likes to watch television, talk on the telephone, hunt deer, shoot doves, take home movies. She recalls with pride her childhood on an isolated Texas farm: "I used an oil lamp until I was nine years old, and I can remember what a big day it was when we finally got indoor plumbing...
...Japanese, those old specialists in low-cost production, are now suffering most among major industrial nations from recent price rises. Spring prices of spinach and radishes, two favorite Japanese vegetables, are up 20% this year. Public bathhouses, government-regulated as utilities, got a 30% price hike in 1961, but last week owners threatened to strike to gain another 32%. Haircuts in Japan cost 40% more, laundry 30% ; even piano teachers have doubled their fees. Worriedly, Prime Minister Ikeda is considering reimposing the price controls dropped in 1954. The remedy most generally applied in other nations is to ease the duties...
...customers who like to do their banking along with the family shopping, the San Antonio Savings Association has opened nine branches inside local Handy-Andy supermarkets, right among the soap and spinach. The Bank of Pasadena has a limousine service that carries banking directly to customers who cannot get to the bank; a small truck with a two-way radio wheels around town doing business for The Endicott National Bank of Endicott, N.Y. Chicago's Home Federal Savings and Loan can provide instant mortgage appraisals for telephone callers by dispatching a bank officer to their homes in a radio...