Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...port city of Saigon, with its teeming, clamorous, shop-filled alleyways, its broad, treelined, Frenchified boulevards overflowing with beautiful fragile girls, like exotic moths in their flowing skirts split at the waist over trousers of silken gauze. Saigon's wealthy exporters deal in rice, and in the rubber, tea, cinnamon and copra that pour onto the docks from plantations in the nearby countryside...
Swinging through Asia was Minister of Aviation Peter Thorneycroft. India sends one-third of its exports to Britain, Pakistan one-fifth. Ceylon's tea enters Britain duty-free, but faces a 35% tariff entering the Common Market. Thorneycroft talked for an hour with Nehru, who emerged to note sourly that Britain's entry into the Market "would certainly weaken the Commonwealth." Most Indian businessmen take a more hardheaded view. As India's Economic Times observed: "If the Commonwealth trade preferences which formed the real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might...
...cardinal sin for tea hers," says one who knows the trade, "is boredom...
...cobbled, orange-tree-lined streets were mostly deserted except for a few trudging, overcoated citizens. But beneath the icy surface of Paraguay there was a thawing new ray of hope. Men whispered word of it across the marble tabletops of kerosene-heated coffeehouses, over steaming mate, the herb tea sipped from a gourd through a metal straw. The hope, still dim but voiced seriously for the first time, is that outside pressure-chiefly from the U.S.-will eventually force the dictator...
...Theodore Cornbleet and Dr. Irma Gigli reported that they divided 52 acne patients into two groups. One group got to eat all the sweets it wanted. The other was restricted to two teaspoonfuls of sugar a day each, in coffee or tea. During the month-long experiment, all 52 got normal treatment with antibiotics. Result: at the end of the period, "the sugar-limited group did no better than...