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...York lawyer IDA CASTRO is the leading contender to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. One reason she's topping the list: she has ties to Harold Ickes, new White House deputy chief of staff. Clinton had hoped to fill the eeoc slot and several other civil rights posts before Martin Luther King...
...first episode revolves around two antagonists: John D. Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful monopolies in the world, and Ida Tarbell, the muckraking journalist who exposed the unscrupulous tactics by which he did so. Later the series highlights less celebrated but equally colorful characters: people like Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, the Texas wildcatter who sought money by scouring newspaper obituaries and writing mash notes to wealthy widows, and Calouste Gulbenkian, the powerful Middle Eastern oil broker who was reportedly so suspicious that he had two sets of doctors, one to check up on the other...
Litwack also presented slides of Beals' extensive portrait portfolio, which included photographs of Mark Twain, journalist Ida Tarbell, and Presidents Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...with his hyperactive mouth. In a dozen states where petitions are still circulating, he urged his volunteers to continue to work. In New York, by coincidence, the process started the same day of Perot's announcement. "We're moving ahead as if the press conference hadn't occurred," said Ida Lewis, the committee's spokeswoman. In Rochester, where the Perot movement has been particularly strong, its steering committee voted to organize a letter-writing campaign urging Perot to resume his campaign. Said county chairman Chris Sardone: "I'm not sure what Mr. Perot is telling...
...potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least three to five years away. But even this state-of-the-art technology has got to be viewed as a godsend to the soldier...