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...name of the game this summer is that calorific Italian stuff. One of the biggest gelato wholesalers, Tartufo Italgelateria, Inc., of San Gabriel, Calif., supplies elegant restaurants and hotels nationally; its gelato will make its debut this month in supermarkets in the Southeast. Next week another variety, called Geláre will be test-marketed by Borden, Inc., in Houston, Dallas, Columbus and Pittsburgh, with an eye to eventual distribution throughout its 28-state market. "This is the best-tasting product we have tried," says Robert Kirby, a Borden's group vice president. "It seems that more people...
...eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus season was over she lived exclusively on glasses of fruit and vegetable juice, ampules of gelée royale, oysters and dry biscuits...
...Adams plan caught the attention of the National Defense Research Committee, which spent $2 million on the scheme before deciding the little beasts were too difficult to handle. Miniature bombs made of celluloid and filled with napalm gel were attached to the bats with surgical clips, and the recruits hibernated in cold-storage chests until flight time. Then came the first test run, held at Muroc Lake, Calif, in May 1943. When released from the planes, many of the bats did not wake up, and plummeted to the ground like tiny kamikazes. Others drowsily flew off, never to report...
...family business, a small coal mine burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money...
Should the offense gel, the Big Green could develop into a legitimate contender in this year's race; with eight starters and 10 of 11 back-ups returning, defense looks imposing, especially in the secondary...