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...index, but there was also a booming black market in food and other consumer items, an outgrowth of government price controls. The black market prices -what Greeks refer to as "the hat" -are the difference between what the government says the local butcher can charge for a piece of veal, and what the shopper actually...
...Walt Disney World. One-way fare is $190 for a car and two people, and $20 extra for each additional person. Passengers ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently includes such dishes as chicken kiev, veal parmesan and ham with pineapple sauce. "We try to make each trip seem like a visit to a resort hotel," says Garfield, the chief executive, who has made a paper profit of some $3,420,000 on his stock in the company during the past year...
...Fiesta dinner offered by the Club El Bianco on Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped by a "Champion" trophy. "Nobody's finished the whole...
...cookbook and publishes a Weight Watchers magazine (circ. 550,000) that is crammed not only with recipes for low-calorie meals but with fashion, travel and even astrological advice. For the past four years, the organization has licensed two food companies to market frozen dinners (fish, turkey, chicken and veal) and a line of low-calorie soft drinks and skimmed milk under the Weight Watchers label...
...mean the difference between life and death." At last week's NATO conclave, where the Hollywood moviemakers were practically invisible, there was a whole midway of barking concessionaires trying to sell the exhibitors the latest House o' Weenies rotisseries, Pronto-Burger rigs and even microwave ovens for veal Parmesan. After all, the average drive-in patron, according to one study, pops for 49? worth of refreshments; the indoor theaters count on 22? per customer. That adds up to approximately $800 million a year, or close to 40% of the theater owner's total take. In 1971, that...