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...name of Allah, millions of Moslems still faithfully observe the code of the Koran. They refuse to eat pork, do not gamble or drink and never overlook their five daily devotions, performed while facing in the direction of Mecca. Yet the same winds of modernity that have swept through Christianity are now beginning to affect the religion of Mohammed. Last week, at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Islamic scholars and sages from 23 Moslem nations met to consider ways of accommodating the Prophet's teachings to a changing world...
...most generous in West Germany, where companies lavish benefits on the lowliest employees as well as on the highest executives. A manufacturer passes out free opera tickets. Brewery hands carry home two to four liters of beer every day; slaughterhouse workers are entitled to half a side of pork each month. Employees of the Reemtsma cigarette company get 30 free packs of cigarettes a month-which they often sell...
...continuous driving of the country people into the towns and cities, far from helping to defeat the communists, is only production more and more problems for the Allied side. For example, the salary of a Vietnamese soldier is about 2,500 piasters a month, while a kilogram of pork costs about 500 piasters. Such salary is not enough for him to even feed himself alone...
...each was quickly oversubscribed, and shares rose to about $12.50 by week's end. New capital will enable Parks to expand his model sausage factory in Baltimore and to fatten his rather limited product line. About 12,000 stores on the East Coast from Virginia northward market Parks pork sausages and scrapple. Soon to come are quick-cooking sausages, beef sausages, and what Parks calls "the whole line of Southern foods, such as barbecued anything...
Chewing on a chitterling, even after it has been carefully cleaned and cooked, is rather like chewing on a football bladder. So soul-food restaurants that cater to whites rarely carry chitlins on their menus, instead stick to more conventional dishes, such as shrimp gumbo, "smothered" pork chops and ham hocks. Even those have little appeal to a gourmet palate. Soul food is often fatty, overcooked and underseasoned. Vegetables are boiled with fatback for so long that their taste and nutritional value go up in steam; meats have to be sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper to give the eater...