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...Undergraduate Council presented its first batch of teaching awards. The winners were Cheryl Wites a government tutor Joseph J. Hetcher '57 professor of Chinese History and Marshall Hyatt, assistant professor of Afro American studies...
Director of Expository Writing Richard C. Marius, who reviewed all three searches, termed them "a very good batch," adding that he had read their speeches so many times that "if they forget their lines I'll just hop on up and say them...
Noxell has carefully cultivated an image of wholesome, All-American beauty ever since 1914, when Dr. George Bunting cooked up the first batch of Noxzema skin cream in a coffeepot in his Baltimore pharmacy. Originally intended as a sunburn remedy, the blend of clove and eucalyptus oils, lime water, menthol and camphor also proved to be an excellent skin cleanser. In 1929, Admiral Richard Byrd took it along on his expedition to the South Pole. G.I.s during World War II and the Korean War used Noxzema for shaving. Today, when skin-care products are the fastest-growing segment...
...foot-stomping tunes. Now soft-drink makers are wooing the guzzlers with a flood of new brands. Nine colas have been introduced by major producers in the past 15 months, which is more than in all the years since John Styth Pemberton whipped up the first batch of Coca-Cola in 1886. Says Richard Armstrong, president of Dr Pepper, which has brought out two new brands since last fall: "It would be unusual for even the computer industry to compress so much activity into so short a time...
...first batch of entries, excerpted in the London Sunday Times this week, were skimpy but they nonetheless made fascinating reading. Hitler's scribblings ranged from the commonplace ("Suffering more and more from insomnia; indigestion getting even worse," from April 1938) to the conspiratorial (on Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo: "I shall show this deceitful small animal breeder, this unfathomable little penny pincher with his lust for power, what I am really like," from Nov. 11, 1939).* At another point, the diarist related how Storm Trooper Chief Ernest Roehm "lied to me and deceived me," and then displayed...