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Clement, who likes to swig iced tea from a Mason jar, attacked the offering of 123 different courses at Eagle Point High. He cited such "frills" as horticulture and jewelry making. Said he: "My boy can't read too good, not much better than me. They let him do what he wants and don't make him learn what he should. I hate to close the school, but we got to make them listen...
...from a penthouse in Geneva, Cartoonist Hank Ketcham is going home to California. The cost of living on the Continent became too steep for Ketcham, 56, who first sketched the kid with the cowlick in 1951. Gripes he: "I don't mind paying nine Swiss francs for a jar of something labeled beurre d'arachide crémeux. But when you figure out that it means $3.75 for a jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that he was on the verge of turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into...
...invention of the icebox in 1803, the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the development of the vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process...
...none of those questions had been answered; Howard Hughes was generating as much mystery from the grave as he had in life. In the most bizarre quest for information yet, a neuropathologist will soon examine a portion of Hughes' brain that has been pickled and preserved in a jar on a shelf in Houston's Methodist Hospital. His mission: to look for evidence of disease or damage that could have impaired Hughes' judgment; such a finding would throw into question anything that Hughes signed or said during his later years...
Hoover's fingerprints on the cookie jar turned up during a probe into charges of corruption in the FBI's purchases of equipment. Following leads supplied by low-level FBI employees-including carpenters and other blue-collar workmen-investigators soon found evidence that Hoover and some of his closest aides had misused two FBI accounts...