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Each week, the last page of the magazine features the "Time Essay." This week, Frank Trippett used the space to discuss "The Human Need to Break Records." Pointing to gigantic games of musical chairs and quick consumption of jalapeno peppers a proof, Trippett concludes,"Only humans striving for more than mere survival have elaborated competitiveness into the cultural imperative that it is . The obsession with setting records is finally inextricable from the human determination to rise above the past." Consider, in closing, another Trippett observation, "The act of dying," he says, "is one of the very few human activities that...
...Coca-Cola Heiress Frances Woodruff of Atlanta is said to be the oldest woman ever to ride and fly a hang glider. In Pampa, Texas, Plumber Ronnie Farmer, 29, ate 100 hot jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, destroying the previous record (94 in 111 minutes) and probably his innards as well. In Japan, Hideaki Tomoyori has learned to carry the mathematical formulation pi (3.141 etc.) to 20,000 places, putting to shame his own earlier record of 15,151 places...
Since 1972, the American impact on Aberdeen has been increasing relentlessly. On Union Street, the shopping center, Dunn & Company, hatters, now carry Stetsons, and Grocer Hamilton Ross stocks Jack Daniel's and Old Grand-Dad next to Glenlivet malt Scotch. For Southern U.S. tastes, there are jalapeno peppers, barbecue sauce and Smucker's blueberry syrup...
...went into business. Swanson expects a profit margin of 20% by the end of this year; in three years, he expects his income to double. Ben Tre is a bit too quiet for Swanson's expansive Texas tastes, but friends back home keep him supplied with his favorite jalapeno peppers, pinto beans and Gouda cheese. "Once I get rich," he says, "I'll get good cigars shipped in from San Antonio...