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"Take out." Gregory yelled into the main room of the diner, and soon enough, one of the blue-jean clad ballerinas was there to escort the sealed styrophome container.

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Working Class Zero | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville, Tenn., a religious house, agreed to produce the million copies. Photographic plates of a Union version Bible, first translated into Chinese in 1919, were forwarded to the U.S. from Hong Kong. The printing bill for the leatherbound, 629-page volumes of the complete Scriptures was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Risky Rendezvous at Swatow | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Enterprising Spanish importers figured they would find another market for the oil by reversing the "denaturing" process that had transformed it into industrial oil, simultaneously making it unfit for human consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spain's Lethal Cooking Oil | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Ice cream is American by right of conquest, however. George Washington owned a gadget for making ice cream. Thomas Jefferson loved it. An American woman named Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked, rock salt-and-ice freezer in 1846, although she neglected to patent the machine. Robert M. Green, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

I loved Good Humors because they had chocolate shells. And I loved it when, on a summer night, my grandmother would give me 35? (I think it was 35?, my memory is as fragile as my teeth) and send me to the store where the druggist would personally pack a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: An Eternal Verity | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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