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...thrown into uproar by the report of a case of yaws, which proved to be a physician's whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon." Who was Monsieur Bacon? None other than France's Minister of Labor, whose department administers the program...
...world's most belligerent peace lover, and loud public opponent of all nuclear testing, could Nikita avoid denouncing France in strong terms? The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble. "Hurrah for France!" cried Nikita...
...goes with increased liability to heart-and-artery disease. In fact, says Garn, the American child's diet, sometimes characterized as "one big milk shake," is perilously akin to a diet used by medical researchers to create death-dealing obesity in rats. He concludes: "Frappes, fat-meat hamburgers, bacon-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, followed by ice cream, may be good for the farmer, good for the undertaker, and bad for the populace...
Sock the Rich. In Albuquerque, District Director Ernest W. Bacon of the Internal Revenue Service received 12? from a nine-year-old boy with a note attached: "Allowance, 50? per week, 50 times 26 [sic] equals $26; pulling nails, 25?; letting Joe hit me, 5?; not hitting him back, 3? ; cleaning up after dog, 25? ; painting doors, 50?; total $27.08. Spent all but 12?, am sending you and this makes me even...
Kerr, a partner in the Chicago investment house of Bacon, Whipple & Co., told the bankers that those "who know the invariable wisdom of balanced budgets, of stable money and of sound debt management must be moved to use every means to convince the people of this country that their standard of living and the freedom of their daily lives are at stake...