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...California also saw the entry of Norton Simon, a wealthy industrialist (Hunt's tomato products, among many others) and art collector (Rembrandt's Titus, for which he paid $2,234,000 in 1965), into the Republican primary against Senator George Murphy. Simon, 63, announced on the last possible day, surprising nearly everybody. Many had even assumed that he was a Democrat, since his money has aided Democrats -including Congressman John Tunney, who wants his own party's nomination for Murphy's seat...
...cleaner, better society involves a difficult choice: How does the nation want to distribute its income and physical resources? There is a price that must be paid for raising the quality of life, just as there is for increasing the horsepower of an auto or the yield of a tomato patch. If the growth of production slows, the consumer will have less in the way of goods. But he may also be able to live with less noise, smog, crowding and anxiety. In some cases and some places, slower development can be a positive benefit. The job for the nation...
...ravine was another loose cluster of permanent camps-one old farmhouse, a converted chicken coop, shacks, and sod houses, Beyond them was a string of transient campers where we set up camp with another group we met. We made a fire and ate beans, fried rice, bread and tomato soup, and we drank coffee. I walked back across to the springs to bum a smoke. Someone gave me a package of Bugler and papers which I took back to the group...
...coffee machines ran all day, and in the afternoons two of them were converted to a strange sort of tomato bullion which, however, didn't give you the jumpy feeling that you go after eight cups of coffee. Drinking these wonderful hot liquids was the only way to stay alive...
...promoting Russian seafood, but the sales luncheon was neither a gastronomic nor a commercial success. Oily sardines were served with Georgian brandy so medicinal-tasting that it is sometimes known as "Stalin's Revenge." There was also dry shrimp with sweet champagne, sea kale and vegetables in tomato sauce and seven other tinned seafoods-but no bread or crackers to go with them. The Soviet sales luncheon has become increasingly familiar in Southeast Asia, where the Russians are pressing an economic offensive. This week they will wind up their most ambitious effort, a three-week trade fair in Kuala...