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...Announced, in a statement which brought a yell -of indignation from Red China, that the U.S. was sending an Air Force unit equipped with Matador missiles to Formosa to beef up the Nationalist Chinese defenses (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...mutiny itself-mostly horror but also part farce-began, as the schoolbooks say, with the news that the new type of rifle cartridge issued to the East India Company's troops was greased with beef and pork fat. One would be horrible to cow-venerating Hindus; the other would be offensive to pork-abhorring Mohammedans. The troops in India were a fantastically mixed lot-and Indians do not mix well. There were not only the company troops but regiments in the service of Queen Victoria, and in the ranks discipline was snarled up in India's ancient caste...
More dangerous to man than the beef tapeworm is Echinococcus gramdosus. Sometimes the microscopic eggs adhere to the fur of dogs and find their way into the mouths of dog patters. Once established in human tissue, a single egg can multiply asexually into millions of tapeworm heads enclosed in a cyst as big as a grapefruit...
MEAT-PRICE RISE is coming because 1957 production will drop 2% to 3% below last year's record 28 billion Ibs. Southwest drought has cut into cattle supply and hog farmers are marketing fewer porkers to avoid last year's glut. Chicago wholesale prices: beef, 7% to 16% higher than this time last year; pork, up 37% ; lamb...