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...local work force-and also halt the embarrassing trickle of post exchange food that Cuban workers have been able to carry home with them. People living in Oriente province, which surrounds the base, have been especially hard hit by the breakdown of Cuba's distribution system. Beef and chickens, frozen when they leave Havana 600 miles away, arrive in Oriente in an advanced state of decay; so do dairy products. Said one Cuban on the base: "Our meat sometimes has worms, and when it doesn't it smells to the heavens. I do not know how long...
...fell swoop," said Mrs. Kean. No one went hungry at Mrs. Kean's swoop. She lives in a 15-room duplex apartment that covers the entire top of the Hotel Westbury like a two-acre astrakhan hat. She had Russian-speaking waiters up there passing champagne and beef Stroganoff on sterling silver platters. She had Henry Fonda, Robert Preston. Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly. She had jazzman Ted Straeter, with a five-piece band. The young people of the Bolshoi loved every minute of it. When Straeter flooded the place with twist music, members of the corps de ballet were...
...them. When the first Jewish immigrants arrived from Central Europe in 1860, they became targets for the landed aristocracy, which feared the industrious newcomers. Those old resentments were sharpened in the years after the fall of Dictator Juan Peron, whose policies brought ruin to Argentina's wheat-and-beef oligarchy. In the economic chaos, Argentina's Jewish colony, which now numbers 470,000, the largest in Latin America, still seemed affluent; Jews controlled a good share of the country's banking and finance, were even getting elected to Congress...
...haze of protein that forms when it is chilled. But newer uses are constantly developing. Dr. Beckhorn is working on enzymes to turn cornstarch into syrups specially suited for baking or candy making, and on enzymes that can be injected by multiple hypodermic needles into whole sides of beef, the dose carefully calculated to bring each cut of meat to ideal tenderness...
Eleven times cloture votes have been taken against Southerners filibustering against civil rights; eleven times the votes have failed. Until last week, cloture had not been imposed since 1927, when Drys gagged a filibuster by Wets against a bill to beef up Prohibition enforcement...