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...trust for a favorite companion: T-Bone Towser II, his five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger), and, explained Clegg, "he does love pâté de foie gras and caviar. He drools terribly if you serve either...
Residents of New Jersey sometimes liken their state to a keg of beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...
...computer-controlled centrifuge will soon be available to determine how crews and their systems stand up under the G forces of rapid acceleration. The world's largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
...M.I.T.'s Keg Auditorium, about 300 students filled only the first few rows Saturday afternoon to watch a broadcast of the teach-in. The sparse crowd cheered the anti-Administration speakers. In the morning at M.I.T several professors from the Boston area had discussed American intervention in the Dominican Republic...
Trujillo's favorite titles were "Benefactor of the Fatherland," "Chief Protector of the Working Class," "Genius of Peace." In a grim way, there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills...