Word: cereal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Beth Ann Simon, 24, a New Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton...
...with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys was going to reach through the opening in the wall and remove an ostrich-egg-sized lump from the back of a Vietnamese farmer...
Died. Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, president and then chairman of General Foods Corp., a Wall Street lawyer who took over the presidency of small Postum Cereal in 1924 and began an expansion program that resulted five years later in the merger of 15 food companies, continued to develop ever speedier convenience foods (Minute Rice, JellO, Birds Eye) until sales reached $260 million at his retirement in 1941, $1.5 billion last year; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
...pamphlets attacking the proposed "bread tax," a phrase that became a household word overnight. The pamphlets, distributed free at supermarkets around the U.S., explained that if the wheat plan were passed, housewives would soon be paying more for bread as well as for flour, crackers, cookies and cereal. Before long, outraged mail against the wheat plan started deluging Capitol Hill...
...Mackenzie in TV's Peyton Place), were married-or about to be. All anybody knew for sure, as the Southern Breeze lay at anchor off colorful Cape Cod that afternoon, was that among the fresh foodstuffs taken aboard at Hyannisport were several boxes of a body-building breakfast cereal called Fruit Loops...