Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hundreds of towns have their boostering stunts. Tiny Pittsfield, Me., will hold the Central Maine Egg Festival, with 600 eggs being scrambled simultaneously in one frying pan 10 ft. in diameter. Jacksonville, Fla., just turned out to celebrate the end of pollution in the Saint Johns River, with stunt flyers, hot-air balloons, parachute jumping, the mayor waterskiing, and trucks dumping hundreds of fish into the cleaned-up waterway. In the Texas hill country, the tiny town of Luckenbach (pop. 6), now made famous by Waylon Jennings' country-and-western song about the simple life there, is holding Saturday night...
...Jubilee inspired, inevitably, its share of schlock. Among the overpriced jubiliana being hawked in London were necklaces, beer mugs, T shirts, jeans, egg timers, shopping bags, ashtrays and thermometers. One London sex shop offered a matching bra-and-panties set, boldly emblazoned with the Queen's state coach and horses. Two British breweries offered pub customers a brace of special celebration brews: Queen's Ale and Silver Jubilee...
...pumps gum like Fuller pumped brushes. "We'll do about $6 million this year," he says happily. "About 1.5 billion gumballs." Early in 1976 Uncle Al became a millionaire. He has jawbreaking novelties such as a nonmelting ice cream cone in 28 flavors, the solid-chicle Pterodactyl Egg ("You sit on it for 800 days nonstop"), Purple Poppers, Puckeroos, Powies and, most recently, Fu Man Chews, which are chewable Chinese checkers. Bachelor Silverstone says, "My life hasn't changed very much, but I'm enjoying it more all the time...
...some chickens lay 157 million eggs and produce one fat turkey? Easy, when each egg is used to produce a dose of vaccine for the federal swine-flu immunization program...
...Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery egg to keep you going till lunch. All the same, when Dean Fox announced that only four Houses would serve hot breakfasts next year and that Mather and Dunster House students would have to walk three blocks to Leverett for their morning meal he aroused considerable student...