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Grass & Ferns. The impulse Tenderer is actually more efficient than a cow, since it diverts none of its food to its own uses. One hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...
Twelve Kinds of Syrup. The fact that Lata does not appear on the screen never bothers her fans. Nor does it trouble them that the studio mixers, who build up her voice electronically to help it ride over the orchestra, rarely manage to synchronize her song with the "singer" on the screen. The offbeat result helps the audience identify Lata. And in Indian movies (TIME, Jan. 5)-three-hour, syrupy soap operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites...
...Rabbit Trap. A fable about a plodding father's effort to hold his son's respect, starring Ernie (Marty) Borgnine, who stands in as much danger as maple syrup of being typecast as lovable...
...Votes. The week began amid a Dixieland band smash of Runnin' Wild! and Ain't She Sweet? as the President walked into a $100-a-plate Republican dinner at the Sheraton-Park Hotel with Mamie Eisenhower on his arm. Ike gave the 3,000 guests no soothing syrup...
Sipping white rum and pure syrup poured over ice, Martinique's mulatto intellectuals last week argued politics in Fort-de-France's breezy cafes, but the politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe, discussed the annual four-day bicycle race partly sponsored by the French Cycling Federation. Since 1946 the islands have been departments of France d'outre-mer (overseas) rather than colonies, and their citizens have wholeheartedly accepted the notion that the 4,250 miles of ocean separating them from...