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...California firm, Imported Fine Products, is distributing Buisman's Coffee Extender, a century-old Dutch concoction of caramel and calcium phosphate, at $4 to $5 per Ib.; two tablespoons of Buisman's, long used in schools and hospitals, will double the yield of a pound of coffee. Another caramel-based extender, Coffee STRETCH, now being sold in 1,000 Denver-area grocery stores, is selling fast at about 69e for a half-ounce packet. It too boosts the yield of a can of coffee...
...struck Brazil in 1975; cold winds blew through the country again last week, possibly damaging next year's crop and threatening supplies. Though there have been some signs of a softening in coffee prices, most experts now believe it will be several years before the cost of a pound of ground roast will sink back to even...
...that Coach Parker was up to his old trick of mass-mailing recruitment. This alumnus just wanted to say that he knew Harvard had an incredible crew team already, but he had to tell somebody that he was really impressed this year because his 6-feet, 4-inch, 210-pound son had gotten a letter asking him to try out as a coxswain...
...violently inflationary year of 1974, sugar seemed to many consumers an even bigger villain than oil. A combination of rising demand and crop losses due to bad weather caused the price per pound of raw sugar delivered in New York to multiply almost six times between January and November, to a high of 64^0. Angry consumers organized boycotts, but growers believed that they would not succeed. They thought sugar was one of those little luxuries that people would pay almost anything...
...Dordogne Valley in southwest France is known for its richly forested hillsides, its spectacular rock formations, its prehistoric cave paintings and - perhaps most fondly - for its truffles and foie gras. It also happens to be the home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many...