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...large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain...
...particular importance to the students were soy-bean milk stations and a daily allotment of peanuts to supplement their rice diet...
...door opened again. "One minute, Mr. Hickey." Ed Macauley, the string-bean (6 ft. 8 in.) center who is probably 1948's best college basketball player, nervously wiped his ashen face. "And remember," said the little man, "conserve your energies on offense. You can't rest on defense." The boys bounded up from the benches; clapping and shouting, they moved into a huddle. Hands piled on hands, players and coach recited a Hail Mary at abracadabra speed, ended it: "Mary, Queen of Victory, pray for us." Then Edgar Hickey and his St. Louis University Billikens were ready...
...period of eight minutes an exposure to a temperature of 250° F. without suffering any ill effects, and without a serious rise in body temperature, while a beefsteak exposed at the same time to the same environment [and fanned by bellows] was cooked in 13 minutes. . . . WILLIAM B. BEAN, M.D. University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio...
...That Kat. Waugh agrees with many a highbrow in thinking that the greatest of all comic strips was the late George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a gentle, loving soul constantly tormented by her great love, Ignatz Mouse, whose joy in life was to "krease his [Kat's] bean" with a brick. Some partisans saw the Kat and Mouse as latter-day versions of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Poet E. E. Cummings found Krazy's faithfulness a vindication of the principle of love...