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...Mary Lord of New York, member of Minnesota's Pillsbury flour family, the efficient and articulate co-chairman of the national Citizens-for-Eisenhower organization, a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, and a familiar figure in New York City welfare work...
...said a Danish delegate to GATT, "that the U.S. prefers to continue to assist us through dollar grants from the American taxpayer . . . instead of allowing us to pay in goods for dollars we urgently need to buy American products." The Dutch, even angrier, slapped a retaliatory tariff on U.S. flour imports...
Raftery has found enough tools and the bones of enough domestic animals to feel sure that men who lived on Lough Gara were prosperous farmers. Not only could they mill flour, but they had also reached the stage of specialization of labor. A large deposit of 200 flake-cutting tools found in one spot suggests a village toolsmith's shop. One Bronze Age axhead is so finely, finished it might have been machine made...
Texas fascinated Leslie; it also appalled her. Texas food nauseated her. The famed steaks were "enormous fried slabs, flat, grey, served with a thick flour gravy," and sometimes topped by a couple of fried eggs. The Texans seemed to her as bad as their food, loud braggarts who had stolen Texas from the Mexicans and now treated them like peons. The men were big and boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves...
...Association for the Advancement of Science, in Belfast, was greeted at its 114th session by its previous president, the Duke of Edinburgh. Theme of the conference: "Of what use is science if man does not survive?" Discussion ranged from the number of mouse hairs contained in a pound of flour (there may be as many as 180), to a time-motion study of the Royal Navy (only 15% of British tars shave before noon), to problems of parthenogenesis among humans (verdict: unisexual reproduction, common in insects, is unlikely to be achieved by women, but it would cause a dickens...