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...Digging near the cucumber-and tomato-growing village of Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...
...have forgotten how good food tastes!" exclaimed Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 after sipping a spoonful of tomato soup, the first food he has had in seven days. MacDonald ended his week-long fast protesting the jailing of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, the woman believed to have been the inspiration for Lara in Dr. Zhivago, just before midnight yesterday...
...with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato paste, ground-up peppers, tomatoes and curry powder...
THIS was all in the Campbell tradition. In 1897 a young Campbell chemist, Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, invented one of the first convenience foods, condensed tomato soup. He piled up a fortune of $115 million from soup before he died in 1930. Today Campbell sells everything from frozen blueberry pie to spaghetti sauce...
...executive assistants at each plant pause for spot taste-testing. If the celery in Sacramento's soup, or the carrots in Omaha's TV Dinner, are the wrong color or taste, the whole production batch is thrown out. Campbell once destroyed $5,000,000 worth of tomato juice because it failed to measure up to Campbell standards...