Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Y. Brown knew how to sell chicken, that was for sure. The ex-encyclopedia salesman bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried operation and parlayed it into an empire that he sold for an estimated $35 million profit. But even with all his money and with the help of his new wife, TV Personality Phyllis George, it was unclear whether he could sell himself as the nominee for Governor to the Bourbons, thoroughbreds and mountain boys of Kentucky...
...forms of natural growth, or biomass, including urban garbage, sugar cane, walnut shells and plants. At the same time, government-funded projects are examining means to extract energy from common biological wastes like animal manures. A poultry farmers' cooperative in Arkansas will soon recycle 100 tons of chicken manure daily to produce 1.2 million cu. ft. of methane equal to 12,000 gal. of gasoline; it is then used to power automobiles that have engines converted to accept methane. The DOE calculates that biomass now supplies 1% of the nation's energy. In some areas, the percentage...
...different gastronomical and geographical regions of Italy ("We have 6,000 basic recipes"), expounds the secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta in just about every form from agnolotti to trofie...
...chicken in every spot at Far West sports and public events is the flappable radio station KGB chicken from San Diego. With its infowlable agility to leap and cavort, the chicken clucks up everything from San Diego Padres baseball games to supermarket openings. Feathered by Ted Giannoulas, 24, who now earns more than $50,000 a year for such appearances, the bird has flown as far as New York City with increasing recognition. Now, however, Giannoulas and KGB, which conceived the bird, are tangling over rights. KGB has filed a $250,000 damage suit claiming ownership of the chicken concept...
...little, your thinking man should be able to talk with his mouth full, dauntless even in the presence of hiccups. An informal daily dialogue is staged in the sunken dining area of the center by men and women whose mouths are deliciously occupied with golden corn bread, creamy fried chicken and other Carolina dishes prepared by the cooks-in-residence, Alice and Lucy...