One Man's Tapioca

Tapioca-pudding haters-- numbering untold thousands of U.S. children and of still rankled grownups--got bad news last week. They had hoped that the Battle of the Pacific had cut them off for a long time from Java-grown tapioca. But the Department of Agriculture last week announced an understudy for tapioca, a new type of waxy corn developed by their plant breeders. Much relieved were industries which use tapioca for glue, and the Post Office Department, which uses it as a stamp adhesive.

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