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...inadvertising and truth in lending, truth in menus is catching on. Chicago issues its own menu guidlines: "'Baked ham' should not have been boiled." Councilwoman Carol Greitzer of NEw York City has introduced a bill of fair fare that would outlaw such representations as describing an ordinary spud as an Idaho potato and an ordinary crustacean as a Maine lobster...
...Spud Murphy's, Salisbury's newest nightclub, young white Rhodesian soldiers lurched onto the dance floor last week and joined in a beery war dance to a current hit song, Sweet Banana. The song is a tribute to troopies like themselves "who fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black...
...Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
Never noted for glamor, the humble potato has lost so much of its popularity with diet-conscious Americans that per capita spud consumption in the U.S. today is little more than half what it was 50 years ago. Nonetheless, at New York's Mercantile Exchange last week some of the most sophisticated speculators in U.S. business were in a lather over the future of the potato and betting millions of dollars on what it will cost by mid-May. Seldom has the U.S. commodity market seen so wide and adamant a split between bulls and bears...
Carrying picks, mattocks and hoes, some 3,000 peasants poured into Marigliano's marketplace Monday morning for Operazione Taratufo (Operation Spud), as the Communists called it. Many waved crude signs denouncing the Italian government and the European Common Market. Communist agitators in the crowd also put the blame on U.S. President Eisenhower (on the ungrounded thesis that U.S. wheat shipments for needy Italian children had undermined the potato market). Actually, low prices were the result of a local surplus, panicky farmers' hasty dumping on the market, and above all, the tight squeeze of the Camorra, the middlemen-racketeers...