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While Gemini 4 orbited the earth, Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White did not brush after every meal, but in stead chewed a new gum called Trident, which helps clean teeth by using enzymes to break down dirt and bacteria...
...every 15 minutes. The buggy also is used when residents visit their neighbors. There are some 70 homes on the point, two-or three-storied with numerous sun porches and beautifully kept lawns leading down to the shore. Among the house owners are Wrigley Offield, scion of the chewing gum clan, Elton MacDonald, creator of Plaid Stamps, and Frederick S. Ford, a director of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass. The Harbor Point Association carefully screens anyone wishing
...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...
Asked to comment last night on France's exportation of the discotheque, Lawrence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, quoted an earlier remark of Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government. "This is France's revenge for chewing gum," he said...
...blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...