Word: bran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giveaway Game. Since antiquity, when the beautiful Princess Nausicaa in Homer's Odyssey laundered her linen by placing it in a stream and then dancing on it, women have sought improved ways of washing clothes. Honey, bran, sheep dung and even putrid urine have all been used as cleansing agents over the years. Enzymes were introduced as home-laundry presoaks during the early 1960s in Europe, where they have long been used for removing stains in hospitals and slaughterhouses. Unilever, the huge Dutch-British soapmaker, markets enzyme laundry products in 20 countries...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). The Chase (1966) stars Marlon Bran do, Jane Fonda and E. G. Marshall...
Even the Beatles had to pay $50 apiece to get in-as John Lennon and George Harrison did to give a leg-up to the annual Paris gala for UNICEF. And even the Beatles had competition from such lens lizards as Marlon Bran do, Fernandel, Victor Borge and Ravi Shankar. The main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Funk put test pigeons on a rice diet. First he fed them polished rice; then natural rice, with all its bran coating. When the pigeons got the coating they thrived; when they did not they suffered from polyneuritis. Obviously, the bran-fed pigeons were getting a nutrient that the others were not. Funk concentrated the nutrient, now known as vitamin...
Charles William Post, a farm-machinery salesman, in 1893 concocted the first batch of Postum out of wheat, molasses and bran on his kitchen stove in Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone to boost his strength in a sanitarium run by his future rival, John Harvey Kellogg, creator of corn flakes. Post followed Postum up with Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. He taught his only child the business, had her sit in on directors' meetings at the age of eleven, took her along on factory tours (and incidentally taught her boxing). When she married Socialite Edward B. Close...