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...problems frequently take the form: "If every Chinese wasted one grain of rice each day and each grain of rice weighs one gram...." I learned to write on both sides of scratch paper before throwing it away and to use pencils until I could barely hold them. We always ate everything off our plates including the crust of rice around the edge of a bowl...
...just like the good old days, when the Paramount's bobby-soxers swung and shrieked to Benny Goodman's clarinet and all but ate up Frankie Sinatra alive. But with a difference. TV has created a new generation of fans, and the man that the special 40-cop detail inside the Paramount was trying to keep alive was nobody from the ten rock-'n'-roll acts on the bill, but a 39-year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche...
...students came from all walks of Chinese life. All wore the same blue cotton clothes and ate the same food in the cafeteria. Most students walked to school or took the bus, though many had bicycles. There was no tuition and book fees ran somewhat under five dollars per year for the nationally standardized textbooks...
...wife own a $20,000 blue and white stone house in Gourin, busy themselves raising flowers and vegetables. "They work hard as hell in America," complains Daouphars. "And all that air conditioning doesn't do any good. Funny thing, too-both my wife and I ate hardly anything-toast for breakfast, soup for lunch, a bit of meat for dinner. But, due to a lack of proper exercise, I had a huge belly hanging out in front...
This second check on interhouse showed a huge increase in the number of meals taken. In the 20-day period 1199 Harvard men ate at the 'Cliffe and 958 Cliffies at Harvard under interhouse. The figures include special tables at both schools and the addition of the Radcliffe cooperatives to the experiment...