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In "'Venice, the -Kirke cif Wind,
sore .Was lunching daily, err one
banana and a dish of vanilla ice
grearn„a repast curiously outtof,.
`keeping with the s.pleo.diferous-
image created by the duke and
his duchessaon their arrival: One
-gondola for themselves, „and .a fir;
;second, for 36 suitcases aid the
duke's golf bag.
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A budgetis n fajaWs .(4 ttifitpt
live below its .24earn,lizus.
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438,000 HOURS''- Baught In d
dime store 50 yearse agb; this
cuckoo clock stiliP keeps. peefeCT
time - and 'the" cuckoo
Rops out. Mnrs. Helen Gore,
'OViner, holds the firnepiece...Her
father even .fcarnieclz. the, clock
through World 'War I os•
minder of home.
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teaspoon water -
1..z cup packaged -tiriect bread
18 slices P.4,1PAO
cup tartar sauce
2 cups. grated Cheddar cheese-
16 thinip.slieed,„green pepper
Baps „ a
geliTairlaetn Thaw 'and si roz\M fil-
lets. Divide into 6 equal. por-
tions, .Combineuqigg, .salt, and
water;_ Dip fish In .mixture then._
,cottt, Pan fry in
•ebont )14-inch of melted fat or
cooking 'Oil; Very hot but not
striating,. When fish - is browned
on. both sides and flak's ; easily
On'-"testing with a fork„-remove
from 'pan and ,drain. on absorbent
paper,.
Place a portion of cooked fish
an 6 togS8IsIlieUs.• z',Spaead fish
with tartataasauee, .Coyer ;with.',
6 other slices of toast, Top
each sandwich .with 3,11 'cup • of
grated cheese and 3 green pepper
rings,,. Heat under broiler until
cheese . melts, '.Oover with re-
maining 6 slices of toast. Fasten
layers together with a toothpick
at each corner:' Slice sandwiches
diagonally in -quarters. Serve ..at
once, garnished with tomato
wedges placed between (lie quar-
ters, 'Makes 6 servings. '•
Greatest 'Waterfall
Almost Unknown. .
From Upington we continue to
th- Weat through a d'onntr3rside
more', and more' desolate, reeky
and scorched. The fences along'
sidethe roadside disappear. It
is a wonderful feelingg -lb SPin -
alqng these operit'iffettliesilfi,ee.4.
of all signs of human cultivation.
At hist onee'iribre th'ere is an
open' lieeizon On all 'sides "How':;
well,-,z17 understand :the :old no- ,
roads, Who. felp„,that • the „ plains
t'vere.„too_crowded ,if they could
'glimpie the fires from another
camp. We make a 'short detClur
to the south ,' and about thirty '
kilometers' west of Upington the
road 'dwindles into a couple of
tracks in the asand. 9nt ,here in
, this corner, where Cape Province
borders on South-West Africa in ."
a wild and rocky' lansCape,,lies •
one of Africa's' natural wonders
almost unobserved. This is
Aughrabies, the highest and most
spectacular 'waterfall in ' all
Africa.
Suddenly the wheel tracks
stop at the, edge Of a whirling
stream., We catch sight of i hut
nearby and .there find 'a mulatto
'shepherd, *minding some goats
and a' few cows, who promises
to take us to the waterfall the
next morning. It is still so far
away that ,we can neither, gee
nor hear it, and it,is impossible
to go further by car. So we camp
by the stream, one of"the Orange
River's many Aributaries."
Go See Moscow
In The Winter
Every .now and then one read
in the travel golumns about bor
poorly equipped, is the Soviet
Union for handling the throng of
visitors who colne..- every, sum,
IiLer.
Intourist, the one and • only
,Soviet travel. .a.gen.ey, !cannot
cope with. the assorted thousands
of visitors aaom. the critical., the
••argrthe just-curious na-
',,Y9.P.§ -a A- we. re. teld., aaMealaan
'buSinessnien, school teachers,
even VIP na cial editoas, en-
counter • crowding,,- inefficiency,.
and some downright rudeness.
THe eief atod arcs 4rirximekt at
the Ukraina Hotel, in Koscow.
The .chauffetiredrantornobilesaaol4
tourists don't show up at the
Metropole The ballet tickets ere •
haphazardly produced. The, wash-, ..
bowla -have no. pingS.'4uideS"are
uncommtmicati„ve et-heavy-hand,
ed With the party line. And in
the more rural cities of the
U.S.S.R. (which Mr. Khrushchev
says will be a parade, se by„1970!) .
thelptel, and. pitzrzabiatg 'amenities
are occessionally indescribable.
t' am tempted•lo say. to 'these -•
laments, "What did you expect?
A person is somewhat roughing
It ,when. visits theaSovaet Un-
ion, despite ,the travel folders,
the beautiful Moscow .subway, dr
Mr. Khrushchev's villa beside the
Black Sea," • 4 r
Consumer. goods and comforts
Lave been deeernphasized in the
five%year plans: .Arid Of coarse
unusual plumbing artifacts are
discoverable in ""I .irkey," Iran; or
even Latin America.IT,wo,p,ars
ago one avoided, wheepbssible, '
the main hoteA,in „Diakarta„, In-
donesiaraan'd int liugoslkirvia 'they
take the jainipg cas,off rain
for Vienra'juSt before dinner.
Still;` the, Soviets di) "boast elot"•
about hew wonderful everything
is. Se'they''' ought 'fo be up to
snuff.,.. . „a :a „
But I have a solution for those
who object to crowded szammer
tourism in the land of the Soviets.
It is: trave1tliereqn Winter. That
Is how Gordon Converse, the
Monitor's,_ Chief Photographer,
and I surveyed the realm months
agofl We encountered no over-
crowding whatsoever,
You fly in, say, in January
from Warsaw on a rattly Soviet
version of the DC-3. There are
only six other passengers aboard.
You land at Moscow airport as
a driving snowstorm is slanting
across the wintry landscape, A
few big planes are warming up—
aland apr Tashkent, Novosibirsk, -
Peking?
Inside the warm terminal you
get immediate servicea are whisk-
ed through fomalities/ a lost bag
is promptly found, and courtesy
Is maximum. The lopg drive into
Moscow is again through slant-
ing snow — Hitler and papoleon
saw this phase of Russia! There
Is not another car on the road.
At the venerable,"isolid Metro-
aa pole Hotel, we were promptly
registered and given a room con-
taining not only a set of canopied
beds and a bay winclevi looking
out on the square, but a grand
piano (actually in tune), It was
no matter that some of the tiles
fell off the bathroom wall the
third daywrites 'i.1,1 am
Stringokr.lf the hristiaz iV
Man 4 .or'1.
..E 'll moixin, he sam p rson-
able .Into.tiaist •gkawa'a waiting
to .escort us on our tours to. Mos-
cow Hniversity, to new housing
developments (and some ex-
ceedingly ramshackle, old wood-
en housing that we asked to see),.
the Polish art .eithibit, et cetera.
Tickets foriballet or ',Opera. were
produced in short order, .A
chauffeured',cat could be whistled
up in 20 minutes, The 'longest
wait was in the dining, rooms
(we speculated that the kitchen.
wtes placed at the ex treme oppo-
site end of the hotel).
1,?,id, we need a fur hats music.
' `recordings?' Intouribt was ready
immediately to take us to the
proper store,, We bought ice
crealn from street vendors at
zero temperatures, Because we
were. waiting for an interview
with' Mr. Rhrushcliev (which
never - transpired), we. didn't
venture fat from Moscow, But
the indications were that when
the tourist apparatus is not over-
whelmed by — welt, by tourists
it functions reasonably well.
And, that midwinter' atmos-
phere — the brooding Kremlin
.with -its evergreens weighted .by
white snow, the dusk which set
` in at a p.m., the •''sil.ent crowds
• hUrtying by! ..
No, thei•e was no stopper in
ther washbowl. And the Soviet
twin-jet' that flew us swiftly. to
Coperibageri had the interior'de-
cor_ of an 18 Pullman. But there
were
. . __ ,..„_... ..„....
no frUstrations, no long
„queues,. .no lost tickets, Winter
tourisrh is distinctly bearable,
• that is," in fu,a hat and fur boots.
One thing, always, is unchang-
ng r the,„1,yonderful t feoling. - of
'having emerged fioni-a Mentally
' cireturiacribed'atmosphere' as you
finally walk into that Copen-
hagen"' air (:Iterrnihal ail&.'with
„ Western. prosperity, ,,.. _pastries,
Swisa watches, and all the rest!
Burglar Alarm
Had One Weakness
Ever since the age of 12, when
he first saw an artist at work in
a shopwindow and bought $10
worth of merchandise to get one
of his paintings free, G. David
Thompson has been fascinated
with paintings. Now 62 and a
wealthy, retired Pittsburgh in-
dustrialist, in the past twenty-five
years he has become one of the
world's leading collectors of
modern art, and his fifteen-room
home in Pittsburgh's secluded
South Hills suburb is a private
gallery.
The burglar-alarm system in
the Thompson house is so ingeni-
ous that it not only signals police
of any intrusion, but locks the
intruders in until they arrive. It
is considered absolutely burglar-
proof. Its single weakness is that
it must be turned on.
One night last month, Thomp-
son and his wife went out to
dine with friends. Although
they notified the police that the
house would be empty, they for-
got to flip the alarm switch. The
police checked the house once,
and found nothing amiss but the
sight that greeted the couple's
return was so sickening that
Thompson could hardly talk to
detectives: Ten modern master-
pieces were missing, ripped, or
crudely cut from their frames by
obvious amateurs, They included
six Pablo Picassos; two Fernand
Legers; a Raoul Dufy and a
Joan Miro, Estimated value:
Between $300,040 and $400,000.
Reward offered, "no questions
asked": $100,000. It was the big-
gest arla,theft in ta.S. history.
But it wasn't the theft that
sickened Thompson most. In
their clumsy efforts to unframe
a the pictures, the burglars had
damaged another Picasso, mutil-
ated, a Pitassq collage, and pun-
ched a hole 'in a canvass by
ffenri Matisse,
Some of the best burgers are
made, with seafoodi. For :porch
or patio lunching-home econom-
ists recomend hot,, toasty, Fillet
Burger's,' Salmon Burgers, and
Time Buriers. All three,priAied
very popular, with' tastestegters.
Try the Fillet Burgerts when you
have small fillets on hand such
as sole, ocean perch, or fillets
from small game fish,
FILLET BURGERS
1 pound small fish fillets
1 tableSpolon lemon juice
Y.2 cup flour
1 teaspoon 'salt
2 tablespoons chopped, pickle
3/2 cup chopped onion
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablepsobn prepared mustard
6 split heated hamburger buns
6 slices tomato
% teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Thaw fillets if frozen, Divide
into 6 portions. Sprinkle with
lemon juice. Combine flour and
salt. Roll fish in the mixture.
Pan fay'in about 1/4 -inch of melt-
ed fat or' cooking oil, very hot
but not smoking. When fish is
browned on both sides and will
flake easily on testing with a
fork, remove from heat and drain
on absorbent paper.
Combine pickle, onion, mayon-
naise, and mustard; spread on
heated buns, 'Place a portion of
cooked fish, on bottom half of
each bun, Top with a tomato
slice and sprinkle' tomato with
salt and pepper. Replace bun
tops. Serve hot. Makes 6 bur-
ger& !..„.
—SALMON BURGERS
Keep these 'Salmon Burgers in
mind when a quick, hearty snack
is called for. The salmon patties
cook in, a jiffy and can be pre-
pared in advance, then-refriger-
ated until needed, •'
1'can '(15 Ounces) aahnon
3/2 eup elibilpeloonietr '
14, cup butter, melted
3/i cup dry bread crumbs „
2 eggs, beaten
14 cup chopped' parsley
1 teaspoon dry 'Mustard . '
W teaatioon salt
3/2 -cup dry bread crumbs,,
.31S, ,
Drain and flake salmoii, re-
serving salmon liquid. "CoOk on-
ion' in butter until tender.. Add
saliton liquid, 3/3 cup dray bread
crumbs, egg, parsley, mustard,
salt;', and salmon. Mix.
Shape into 6 patties thg size 'of
the buns and about 1/2 inch thick,
Rolr lin crumbs. Para; fry in'" fat
which is,very hot *but not smok-
ing., -Xben. patties ,are brown on
one aide,. turn, and. brown „on
other side. Drain on absorbent
paper. Place' in Make 6
burgers, *
T.UNA BURGERS
Tuna Burgers, heated.. and
served in individual foil Cozies
are convenient ,for a,a porch sup-
per. If desired; they' too can be
made ahead of time, stored in the
refrirgerator; then :heated at meal
time.. .
2 cans (7 ounces "each) tuna
2 cups thinly sliced celery
3A cup chopped peanuts
1 tablespoon Minced onion ,'
Y2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoonslemon juice
3/2 cup grated cheese
8 buttered hamburger buns.
Drain and flake tuna. Add
celery, peanuts, onion, ' maYon-
naise; lemon ,juiee - and . grated
cheese. Mix thoroughly, Fill
buns with tuna mixture., Wrap
each in aluminum foil. Place
packages on a baking sheet and
heat a hot oven (450*F,) for 10
to 15 minutes. Makes 8 burgers.
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Finnan haddie is a popular
seafood ,product with an' inter-
esting history. It seems that
many years ago, a quantity of
wood stored in a building in
Findon, Scotland, caught fire.
After the flames were put out,
it was found that some haddock
which were in the building had
taken on a rich, golden binwn
colour and when' cOokeclahad a
delightful, , smoky flavour, This
lucky accident was the beginning
of a"heW branch of the Scotch
fishing 'industry and for many
years smoked haddock was mar-
keted as "Findon _haddock".
Later, as a result of popular
usag-e,` the Hama became short-
ened to finnan haddie. '
Finnan. haddie is sold in fresh,
frozen, and canned forms. `Next '
time yOu are leaking for s'oriae-
thing hew in the way of a hearty
snack;r,tay "'these Scotch 'Plaid
^". Sandwiches. They. are delicious,
attractive, and economical.
SCOTCH PLAID
SANDWICHES
1 Can (7f3 Onitc'es) finnarl'haddie
OR ii/2- cups 'Cooked flaked
finnan haddle * • P
2 tableSpoOnsl finely chopped
onion
'!4 (t4p mayonnaise
1/2 !ati eallermin W9reestershi e
4 slices bread
2 s iee iiicekss Canadian processed, c
Mash finnan haddie well with
a fork. , Add chopped Onion
Mayonnaise,. arid Worcestershire
Sauce; blend well, Teak bread,
slices oh One side Only under the
broiler, spread untoasted Side
with fish mixtUre. ,Cat,prOaes,
Sed cheese into strips and erosS
strips over fish in a plaid design,
Place tinder broiler and broil
until cheese Melts, Serve piping
hot. Makes 4 servings.
With a package of frozen fish
fillets in your freezer, you are
daVered. -With fUst about the fi-1
hest meal insurance yOu care bitY.
Fillets, phis a little ithagination,
equal iorne of the tattiest treats
to come frOtit the kitchen. A tine'
Example lit this recipe for Ocean,
Club Stind*lehei. Bright red
It is only when ight has fallen
into deep silence that we become
vaguely aware of hollow thun-
der far away. Aughrabies comes
from the Hottentit word Aukoe-
rebis which means "the place of
the noise," and when next morn-
ing we wade across the stream
after our guide, we can hear that
we are drawing near to the place
where the noise is,corning faorri.
" From the south side of the
river one cannot get close enough
' to see 'the great height 'of the
falls, so we have chosen the
northern side. But from here we
now have to wade two kilometers
through strong currents and
climb rocks to reach'the Water-
fall, The noise, grows atronger,
and at last there appears before
our eyes an impressive and
magnificent view of the giant
waterfall,
The enorrnotus, masses of N.yater
• from the Orange River are first
forced into a ''rIgircrs,V aftl:And
from there they tumble over 200
metres down into a deep ravine
between 'steep; liaked-Riak-faces
where the,-cwater is whipped
around into violent, whirls. and
throws up spray to the height of
hundileti metreg,l'AncirtithRfah
the cloud of sPtaY trainboW
_gleams, In the ravine below, the
watee t 'li pairiaa inifb' waves
five or' six metres' high which
fling themselves against the sides
arid rush on, and an Uncanny-
echol•reVerberates in the ,depths,
The Aughrables•was discovered
in 1824,,,by Cape.,TOWri
chant, GeoigeThernseh,who,was
On a holiday, It Was thud rdund
long before the Viptoria, Palls,
But' n this,Wild arid desert region
it is so hidden that only a few
Petipie"haVe teen it, Indeed, this
natural wonder' is so little known
that ninety per cent of, South
Alriee'h. inhabitants stiff think
that Africa's greatest Falls are
the Victorian; But "Aughrabies,
"the place of the noise,",,:is in-
deed the higheSt and it is., also
the third largest hi the world.—
Front i‘ktilahati° bs iretie fijerre,'
translated front' the Banish by
,stria Bannister.
ii8glint 34 IN4
• ), Low Cost Fiood41
in iv ox. ice `City
Atort!
tsh. , pvto
(eight. from Mexico
Oit'y's rim stiptIrattrkOts.
Wheels,
'the trailer •trtwits full of ;Ow".
'co;t: :Wing poor neigh-
borhoods of the city in a cant-
.pain to stabilize basic food
prices .and improve diAits for lcrw-
income fatiiilies, They -deliver
150 tons of food every day to
326 locations in 200 workingman .
sectors. They reach more than,
3.000,000 of the 5,000,000 realls.
dents ..of the modern cap'ita'l,
. many 'living in crowded settle-
rnents or adobe dwellings on the
shabby fringes where the paVe,'
meat stop, water is carried in
buckets, and meals are Cooked
Over charcoal braziers,
President Lopez Mateos order-
ed low-cost foods fort the..pooX .•
when lie', took office 21/2 „years,
ago, He- placed the job in the.
hands of, the federal food pur-
chasing' -and distributing agency
which had begun selling beans.
and tortillas at cost during the
previous administratien.
Broadening :the :••di e t, the
agency set up a processing and
'packing plant 'and readied. O.
streamlined trallerS to distribute
the foods.
. "The first few days out we
.,,didn't. get ,beyorid thekt'first stop
before we were cleaned out,"
'says one of .• the,•.gray-uniformed'
drivers. "People. stocked up. with •
everything they +' could` carry,
They ,figulted such • a good thing
„cauldn'.t,lest,.But ..we were back ,
the next day ;at ..the,"!samet.time:
with _the lamer gopds and., the,
sameffprices. NOW they're buying
less anCgaining eonfidence.".
i. QuetieS'are waiting "at' every
stop .0-7' tbe ,i-ed trailers, 'pulled'
;by diesel -units, arrive ;pin the
neighbarboods. a • •
Pulling up to the curb, the ..
' two-man crew of each truck un-
fold mechanical, stairs to the
trailer, turn on hir conditioning,
indireet•71ightiog,' tap6c1 •music,
and take their places -,
toe'. help the -customers.. lo=
cate what they want to buy and
the other at the cash register.
The ' trailers are lined with
-self-service -shelves containing
everything from detergents to
canned hams, soups, potatoes,
flour, sugar, salt, dried fish, can-
dies, and milk stored in cartons
in refrigeration units. There is
no limit to what one hoUsewife
may buy. If any food runs out
the • operator radios the central
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tittv (Fehr and McirYnci Gaciarin in Red' tiptoe' dutinti a 3'j-hour .welcome to Moscow 'far
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Maj., titase WhO reCently returned fa earth ater Orbiting the globe il trines, itheuikthev.,
Odded softie ibhiber hates la the featiViilea by bciasting that Soviet identltft find OrOoOsed
building a fiaiiiiii With 'Ci' yfaid, equal to 100 million tans Of TNT, a :yield 5;066 genet di great
at the, atotriit! barrib 'crapped an Hiros hima.
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FILLET BURGERS make an easy-to-eat, satisfying lunch. Every-.
one gets q big, „toasty-warma.bun stuffed With a golden-fried
fish fillet, tasty, spread, and juicy slice' a:if tomato.
The burger, like baseball, has 6 heated buttered bamilurger,
become a familiar part of the
summer scene. Served indoors ok.•
out, it is a menu favourite for
casual dining and can he ,the
answer to the lunch or supper
problem on a .busy slay: j
not a "fechIct"
one peso fuodk r. t. urtiy
one altf .or one-third the retail
pri most gracEry .w.4t's be-
cat e e distributing -age'neY
buys up entire crops from fat-
mers and eliminates the r.n4idle,'
inatO Farnilicis ivhidii Whire air*
only tortillas and beans now-
are able ie. buy meat and milk,
Children are getting balanced
meals, It is exPe'4ted 11134, the
low-priced, packages .w 331
down =retail prieC's sustaining
lasting fight against inflation,
The agency is readying eight •
more.trucks to sell clothing and
'shoes" anti toilet articies, r •
"We feel we have a mission
in this "program," said an ageney
spokesmen. "We are introducing*. ,i,
new,' and health)' faasis to
• poor :with an henest N.-One for
• their mohey."
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