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Indeed, Uganda is a shabby relic after six years of monumental misrule. The economy is a shambles. Nobody is starving, since there are plenty of bananas, the main staple for both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices...
...flawless game. It took a super pass from transplanted soccer star Lyman Bullard (via Gene Purdy) and a seeing-eye snapshot from George Hughes to find the hole in Skidmore's dike. Hughes typified the emotion of the contest as the usually calm scoring machine went tapioca after firing in the winner...
...taken representatives of 27 nations, including the U.S.'s Christian A. Herter Jr. and Shirley Temple Black, two years of hard work. After one session devoted to defining the wording of propositions (what does "environment" really mean?) a delegate sighed, "It's like trying to swim in tapioca...
...traveler who never blends into the landscape is ex-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, currently vacationing in an Acapulco villa with his own supplies of bottled water, tapioca, steak and ketchup. When a dinner invitation came from Acapulco's social pinnacle -the white marble mansion of Actress Merle Oberon and her Mexican industrialist husband Bruno Pagliai -L.BJ. said no thanks, he'd drop by afterward. Lady Bird demurred, but Lyndon isn't about to do anything he doesn't want to do these days. "Bird," he said, "you know I'm not goin...
...England village of Rocky Port to spend the summer with his twice-divorced mother. It is 1964. The village, which seems hard by Stonington, Conn., where Mary McCarthy once lived, is much changed. In vain his mother, who believes in old-fashioned cookery, harangues local grocers for tapioca and fresh fish; she also scours local shops for real jelly glasses. She regards the changes only as part of a dreadful decline in traditional American virtues. What his mother mourns, Peter misses too. But he suspects that her tastes may be more the product of privilege than the frontier spirit. Perhaps...