In 1958 marchers carried their new signs to the Unite Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment

Sign Language on a rainy Easter weekend 50 year ago,a crowd of protester set off from on a four day march for the fledgling cause of nuclear disarmament.A new movement need a new symbol,so they waved signs bearing a simple logo that has since gone on to become a universal emblem for peace.The peace symbol is neither the track of a dove nor a chicken,as hawks have sneered.Artist Gerald Holtom based it on the sema-phore initials for nuclear disarmament,although he later said that it also represented himself in despair,palms out and down.Purposely never copyrighted,used in everything from Vietnam War protesters to cigarette ads,the symbol is easy to recognize-and to misdraw.Pat Arrowsmith,78 helped plan the 1958 march and still goes to antinuclear and antiwar events.A common mistake-leaving out the middle leg-turns a peace sign into the Mercedes-Benz logo .She fixes that I get out my ballpoint immediately.



Pedigreed Pizza There is pizza,and there is pizza Napoletana.The two,connoisseurs say,have as much in common as a premier cru Bordeaux has with the plonk in a screw-top jug.Soon pedigreed Napolitan pizza will join the pantheon of European Union-certified edibles like Spanish serrano ham and English blue Stilton cheese.Warning.It takes longer to read the EU spacs for Neapolitan pizza than to bake one.To bear the imprimatur of Guaranteed Traditional Specialty,pizza must not stray over35 centimeters in diameter nor the crust exceed two centimeters in thickness.ingredients must inculde type 00 flour and up to 100 grams of tomatoes preferably Marzanos applied in a spiraling motion.The word pizza first appeared in an AD 997 manuscript from Gaeta,a southern Italian town.A millennium later,in 1997,separatist militans in northern Italy tried to boycott pizza-the icon of their southern nemesis.Neapolitans responded to the effect let them eat polenta,referring to the cornmeal-based mush dear to the wealthier.but alleagedly culinarily impoverished north.If only Naples had patented pizza,food writer Burton Anderson observed,It would be among Italy's wealthier cities instead of one of its poorest.