Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unaccountably, Khrushchev said nothing. But when Sokolov said his region planned to raise hogs for a market weight of 110 kilograms (242 lbs.), the boss broke in. "Is it wise to push them up to 110 kilograms? That is too much. Ninety kilograms is the most effective weight for bacon." Sokolov: "You are right." That took care of that...
...home much. Bright but unbridled, he disliked school, at ten spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes of nearby Grizzly Peak. "We didn't see a solitary soul." says Keys. "Just hiked and ate. Three breakfasts a day-Aunt Jemima pancakes, dried prunes and bacon. Not too bad a diet. You can eat anything for a few days...
...diet recommendations are fairly simple: "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products. Spend more time on fish, chicken, calves' liver, Canadian bacon, Italian food, Chinese food, supplemented by fresh fruits, vegetables and casseroles." Adds Keys: "Nobody wants to live on mush. But reasonably low-fat diets can provide infinite variety and aesthetic satisfaction for the most fastidious-if not the most gluttonous-among us." On such fare, Gourmet Keys keeps his own weight at a moderate 155, his cholesterol count at a comfortable...
...Such men, along with scores of their colleagues both in the U.S. and abroad, made 1960 a golden year in the ever advancing Age of Science, which had its tentative beginnings in the Renaissance. In 1620 Britain's Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, in his Novum Organum (New Instrument), wrote: "Man, by the fall lost his empire over creation, which can be partially recovered, even in this life, by the arts and sciences." The 340 years that have passed since Novum Organum have seen far more scientific change than all the previous 5,000 years...
...another explanation. Snapped one: "Peter has always taken care of his mother. She's bugged at him because she's not accepted in the social swim. She's trying to create the picture of a poor old lady living in a Montana lean-to on bacon grease." At week's end, after only two days on the job, Lady Lawford, who had earned not a penny in commissions, quit. Refusing her $50 pay, her ladyship blamed it all on a political conspiracy. She lamented that her jeweler boss claimed that he was losing his Democratic customers...