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...basic ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
...final economic and financial crackdown against Argentina is in the works. State Department officials talked freely last week of: 1) dropping the United Nations beef contract with Argentina-up for renewal next month; 2) freezing Argentine funds...
...export of beef is Argentina's largest industry. Under the contract, the United Nations agreed to take 1,500,000 tons of meat, 6,000,000 Argentine steers. So the loss of the contract would hurt. But in Britain. Argentina's biggest customer, the eating of beef is an old custom. Britain would be willing to go along with U.S. policy, if the U.S. can supply the lost beef. It looked as if U.S. foreign policy would get down to the level of the U.S. stomach...
...lake is a seven-mile stretch of deep blue mountain water, rimmed by high pine-forested ridges and fed by a brawling, canyon-hemmed river. Summer cottages dot its beaches, and beef cattle graze in a Western-story valley below. The star-spangled nights at Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...
...Churchill did not even brush the nub of the problem: joint U.S.-British economic pressure. Britain needs Argentine beef, which she does not believe the U.S. could replace. She wants to keep her Argentine investments, the most important foreign holdings she has left. Valuing Argentina as a trade partner, Britain is not eager to see her dragged into, the U.S. orbit. If Britain imposes economic sanctions on Argentina at U.S. request, it will be with growling reluctance. Said the Economist: "Gain must be counted against loss. And in this case there would be enormous loss for a very questionable gain...