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...remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife from long hours at the stove, made her more conscious of sound nutrition, provided her with a happily bewildering variety of foods and delicacies. A few years ago it took the housewife 5½ hours to prepare daily meals for a family of four; today she can do it in 90 minutes or less-and still produce...
Breaking Camp. In McCann, Calif., the Herbert Whitney family, whose stove and console were stolen in past years from their summer cabin, returned this year to find the entire cabin gone...
...bedroom apartment, the paint easily rubs off the prefabricated walls. The furniture is frail and imitative. The kitchen contains a small, 1,300-ruble ($130) refrigerator that stands 3 ft. 9 in. high, is more like a 1939 than a 1959 U.S. model: the stove ($60) is so small that the oven would cramp a large chicken...
...afternoon he stuffed the cotton curtain between the wall and a smoke pipe that ran through the classroom. Early the next morning the chilly instructor lit a fire in the stove and in a few minutes found the curtain in flames. A student on his way to prayers at Appleton Chapel noticed the smoke, and University Hall was saved from serious damage. But the teacher, admired by Faculty and students, insisted that Jesuits had been pursuing him for a long time and had now resorted to means harmful to the property of the University. The deluded gentleman submitted his resignation...
...Socialists are not allowed to publish a newspaper, and have a hard time recruiting new members. Kurt Neubauer, perhaps the ablest of their leaders-who is a member of the West German Bundestag-operates out of an office in two stove-heated rooms on the ground floor of an old apartment house in East Berlin. A Socialist mass meeting that he got Communist permission to hold back in 1954 was such a success that the People's Police have since rejected applications for anything bigger than back-room rallies. And though the party is officially tolerated, members have been...