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Whenever Meany steps down?his current term runs until 1979, when he will be 85???his successor is just about certain to be AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland, 56. Kirkland has a reputation as both an intellectual and a pragmatist. He vows that labor's political support in this fall's mid-term elections will be determined by how legislators voted on the labor-reform bill, rather than going blindly to Democrats. For example, in Illinois the AFL-CIO for the first time will aid the re-election campaign of Republican Senator Charles Percy, who voted...
...requires two kinds of wormwood, "grande absinthe" and "petite absinthe." Proportions: grande absinthe 250 grams; petite absinthe 50 gm.; hysope 100 gm.; citronelle 100 gm.; anis vert 500 gm.; badian 100 gm.; fenouil 200 gm.; and coriandre 100 gm. Directions: Soak the above in 5 litres of pure alcohol (85?? C.) for 24 hours. Add 2^ litres of water. Distill this mixture. Take off 21/20 litres of pure distillate. Add to this 2½| litres of pure alcohol (85?? C.) and 2¾ litres of distilled water to obtain, in all, about 10 litres of absinthe. Color with chlorophyll...
...hotel he one morning ordered a bunch of bananas for breakfast. The hotel considered two bananas sufficient, charged 85?...
...been entirely clarified and last week the Kansas Public Service Commission had investigators ready to go over the Doherty system. A bitter point with Governor Woodring is that in Oklahoma, Cities Service's retail rate is around 50¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that it jumps to 85?? a few hundred miles across the Kansas border, then to $1 at Kansas City...
...only of his age, but his ability. One of his grandfathers, Abiel Holmes, a New England clergyman and historian, lived to be 74. His other grandfather, Charles Jackson, who also served on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, lived to be 80. His father, Oliver Wendell senior, lived to be 85???to be exact, 85 years and 39 days. So Justice Holmes is not yet as old as his father, although he will soon...
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