Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acapulco, they were happily beachcombing when a rich Los Angeles lawyer gave them jobs on his 56-ft. yacht. Bill signed on as a general handyman, and Phil as the cook. "I was awful." Payne recalls, "but Forbis got fat on my cooking...
...virus is inactivated by mixing it with a formaldehyde solution. The key to the correct process is using just the right amount of formaldehyde and letting the brew simmer for just the right duration; too much or too long may cook the virus to a point where the vaccine is useless, while the opposite may allow live virus to remain. Under the new PHS safety procedures, manufacturers must make numerous tests on large batches of the formaldehyde-virus broth (only small samples were tested before). Now samples of every batch of vaccine are submitted to PHS laboratories (earlier, PHS examined...
...dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports some 200 such bands, and the demand for the music has erupted throughout the Caribbean. A fine sample on LP is now available: The Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua, B.W.I. (Cook...
...Sheridan, who left Ireland and drifted to Canada, Hawaii and finally, by sheer coincidence, to San Francisco, cannot stand to even look at the drink any more. Instead of taking a place of honor he has been offered behind the bar at the Buena Vista, he works as a cook in Tiny's Waffle Shop, an all-night restaurant near San Francisco's Union Square. "Whisky and me, 'tis the sad truth," he says, "do not get along, whether it be in coffee...
...take along any valuables. From a $90 kitty that each brought from home, they draw $1.25 a day for food. In groups of four and five, they set up housekeeping in grubby, cramped little walkups that one described as "cleaned-up ratholes." They sleep in borrowed bunks, cook, wash and eat in primitive kitchens, wage an endless war against mice and cockroaches. It is a far cry from campus life...