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...each man in this city is as good as any man." The leader and entourage sweep down the street. Procaccino stops at a pizza stand, buys wedges for himself and his running mates. Nibbling from his left hand, shaking with his right, he continues without missing a voter, getting tomato paste on his suit or egg on his face. Procaccino used to be known for his gaffes-as, for instance, telling an audience that a political ally of his "grows on you, like cancer"-but he is more circumspect these days...
Svetlana also provides some revealing new vignettes about her father. At the grisly gatherings he organized at his dachas, he loved to play practical jokes on his cronies and toadies, like putting a tomato on the chair of Anastas Mikoyan. Beria, mocked by Stalin as "the Prosecutor," was a favorite butt. Stalin used to goad the police chief into getting so drunk that he often had to be carried away insensible, sometimes after vomiting in the bathroom...
Persuasive Logic. Unlike many campus radicals, Magaziner is a first-generation collegian, the grandson of Russian immigrants and the son of an office manager in a tomato-processing plant. He had no sooner arrived at Brown from Lawrence (N.Y.) High School than he began shaking up the university. As a freshman, he persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean...
...zorcaks certainly cannot afford it. Husband and wife work together in D's Pizza Shop, which they own. Mr. Lazorcak has raised his pizza prices from $1.50 to $2 in the last 18 months but cannot keep up with the climbing costs of such simple items as tomato paste. He confesses that his income may be falling because he is too discouraged to work as hard as he used to. "When you knock yourself out and discover that you're making less-well, you figure it's a losing battle," he says...
...corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government has invested nearly $500,000 in Kallia's uncertain political future...