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...blood sample. A technician smeared the blood on chemically treated cardboard. In a matter of moments the results were obvious. If the cardboard changed color from grey to blue, sugar from the corn syrup had not returned to normal level in the drinker's blood, showing a distinct possibility of diabetes...
Looking over the new statistics on retail sales, up a handsome 1.5% during May, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges said that the cut "is beginning to take effect pretty well." There was a distinct shift in mood among the nation's storekeepers, many of whom had not seen much change at the cash registers in the first few weeks after the reduction. Said James Bliss, counsel for the National Retail Merchants Association: "All of a sudden, merchants seem to be unified in the belief that the extra dol lars are finding their way into stores all down the line...
When her dad said he would vote for L.B.J., the G.O.P. had the distinct sensation of being kicked by a mustang. Now a filly is bolting the stable too. Charlotte Ford, 23, Henry's eldest daughter, has joined a group called Young Citizens for Johnson...
...used to help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings and wakes and corpses that sat up in their shrouds. Yet the special charm of this book is that it manages to describe Irish peasant life without condescension or that peculiar quaintness which often produces a distinct aroma of poteen and formaldehyde. The book's other claim to fame is that (for reasons not even Fellow Irishman Frank O'Connor, who provides the introduction, can fully explain) it was banned by the government in 1943 as "in general tendency indecent." The ban has since been lifted...
...been suggested that Harvard's Commencement, the ancestor of all American academic ceremonies and quite distinct from those of Europe, is the United States' chief contribution to higher education. If an undergraduate cannot find distinction in the Harvard curriculum, he can be sure it will appear in the ceremony of the parting...