Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to hasten action by the Senate Finance Committee on tax-cut legislation, Johnson summoned Republican Floor Leader Everett Dirksen, a key member of the committee, to the White House for a poached egg breakfast. "Why don't you go on back up there and get that Finance Committee moving?" demanded the President. "Let's get a ten-minute limit on speeches and debate put on that committee." Replied Dirksen to the man who first achieved national fame as a skilled Senate lead er: "Lyndon, you know that place well enough to know...
Optional Midden. ABC's Arrest and Trial has laid an egg with two yolks. Something unique in television, it is a 90-minute double show in which Flatfoot Ben Gazzara has roughly 45 minutes to arrest someone, then Lawyer Chuck Connors spends the remainder of the time preparing and presenting the defense case. The whole is encased in a thin shell of phony dialogue and dramaturgy. Says the defense counsel to the judge: "I ask the court's indulgence while I present the schizoid face of forensic analysis." The judge might have to sit still, but viewers have...
...Ordinary eggs contain two to four times as much saturated fats as polyunsaturated fats-and saturated fats are the suspected villains that raise the cholesterol level in blood. For that reason, they have disappeared from the tables of dieters, and U.S. egg consumption fell 18% last year. But dieters have little to fear from the new egg because its saturated fats are offset by the polyunsaturated fats and thus float through the bloodstream without causing an increase in cholesterol...
What made the chickens change their egg formula after all these centuries? A new feed developed by Manhattan's Drew Chemical Corp. and tested for two years by a team of Dallas doctors did the trick. Since a patent is pending, Drew is understandably closemouthed about the feed's contents. The com pany admits only that it is a vegetable, not chemical, substance. If the Utah tests prove successful, Drew hopes to sell its eggs throughout the U.S., has lined up such major suppliers as Nulaid and Olson Bros, for production and Safeway and other foodstore chains...
...last busts, Madame X, barely more than a lopsided oval of wax, Rosso nearly dismisses the tactile world entirely. The mystery lady's features are barely perceptible, pulled to one side in a manner presaging Picasso, the surface as sleek as a latter-day Brancusi egg...