Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splattered like an egg of fire...
Predictably, the interconnection?or grid?system of itself came under fire. Whatever its virtues or failings, Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken suggested, "we should construct our power system so that if one egg goes rotten, the others won't." Another clear lesson to many experts is that vast, interlocking grids need to be policed more closely. Under existing law, the Federal Power Commission is empowered only to regulate interstate wholesale electric-power rates, issue permits and licenses for hydroelectric power plants, and perform other bookkeeping chores. The power companies themselves decide what lines will be linked together...
...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...
...long since concluded that New York is a vastly disappointing restaurant town, and the higher a restaurant's reputation the more demanding he seems to be. Said he of Voisin this year: "The egg en gelée was gross, the shrimp marseillaise was overcooked, although in an excellent spiced sauce, and the grilled sweetbreads Rose Marie tasted unpleasantly of smoke." The Colony, he says, can be worse. Best in the city, he insists, is Henri Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times...
...Golden Eggs. In an effort to keep growing in Britain's fiercely competitive food industry, Lyons is looking for new palates to please. It has popularized the hamburger in Britain through a chain of 375 franchised Wimpy stands, has also started up Wimpy on the Continent, where the chain is growing fast. Earlier this year, Lyons merged a subsidiary with Golden Egg restaurants, a London-based quick-order chain, and they plan to open at least 30 new restaurants together. Lyons already sells daily a million cups of tea brewed with leaves from its 1,700-acre plantation...