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...celebrities who are relative aliens to show business are eager to plug things too. Rocky Graziano, displaying a container of Breakstone Cultured Yoghurt, says, "Ya wanna be helty, goils?" All they have to do, he says, is eat the cultured yoghurt. He eats some himself. The next line he delivers has intonations so cultured that it might have been rehearsed at Brasenose or Balliol. "Breakstone is the more cultured yoghurt," he says beautifully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Smeared Yoghurt. Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, claimed victory, argued that "Turkey cannot in the future threaten intervention in Cyprus," because, as he put it, the U.N. action is certain to lead to termination of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. The Turks, of course, violently and volubly disagree with Makarios' interpretation. In any case, Turkey would be unlikely to attempt an armed invasion of Cyprus unless the Turkish Cypriots were in danger of being wiped out. Moreover, last week elements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet had joined the Turkish navy in NATO maneuvers that seemed more for the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: The Mediterranean Taft-Hartley | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Another girl, who dotes on yoghurt, decided "you eat in little bits so no one will notice any food gone--not even...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Compulsive Eating At The 'Cliffe | 11/9/1963 | See Source »

...sartorial explosion of black and brown stripes, flaming yellow tie, a café-au-lait shirt, off-beige shoes, and foreign correspondent's raincoat. He is also a walking menu of odd goodies. Out of his pockets and briefcase, he dredges and devours bananas, Brazil nuts, cartons of yoghurt and handfuls of macaroons, while flourishing an empty sugarcellar. A Greek by descent, and a private detective by happenstance, Cristoforou spends his life shadowing joy. He is the most antic and mythic embodiment of the Life Force since Zorba the Greek danced off the pages of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love Antic & Frantic | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Educated at the University of Bombay, suave Jayant is a Hindu and strict vegetarian who also fasts one day a week and once each year for a fortnight eats only yoghurt. But he does business from an air-conditioned, four-telephone office on the shores of Lake Victoria and tools around in a blue Mercedes to visit the 12,000 workers for whom the Madhvanis provide free housing, schools and medical care. The brothers are frequent business visitors to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Confident Kinsmen | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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