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...Great Book of French Cuisine by Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Francophiles know better. Le plus meilleur livre is the 19th century The Physiology of Taste by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, with entries on the erotic properties of truffles and rules of exemplary dinners: "Let the number of guests not exceed twelve ... the men witty and not pedantic, the women amiable and not too coquettish; the dishes exquisite but few ... the signal to leave not before 11, and everyone in bed at midnight...
...atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence the decay of the radioactive source by psychokinesis, their pleasure score would exceed...
...committee room into a blazing national platform," simply demonstrates that its author was not there. There were no klieg lights and there was nothing blazing-or dazzling, or blinding, as some others have described it. Special soft lights installed in the ceiling yielded a light count that did not exceed 100 foot-candles anywhere in the Judiciary Committee room. A well-lit living room or office measures at about 100 foot-candles...
There are few historic moments that could exceed this in intensity and pain and sorrow. The most powerful man in the world was giving up his power, which he had devoted his life to achieving. The man in whom he had placed the most trust in the use of that power was listening, and somehow trying to make it right or at best bearable...
Herbert Stein, the outgoing chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, later told the committee that the Administration does not believe that unemployment will exceed 6% during the last half of 1974, but he indicated that it could be higher than that in some months. On the other hand, Walter Heller, CEA chairman under President Kennedy, told the committee that if the Administration sticks to present policies, the jobless rate will probably hit 7% by next year. At week's end, the Labor Department announced that unemployment, after hovering at 5% to 5.2% for six months, had inched...