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...professors paced the place, each carrying a cornstalk. They looked like primitive rain worshipers. In a sense they were. Happy fugitives from many a brain-drying university, they were free to ponder-corn. And to their mentor. Botanist Edgar Anderson of St. Louis' Washington University, corn is the kernel of everything...
...evening before their report to the President was due, Taylor and his fellow mediators were still trying to find a kernel of agreement that might serve as the starting point for a last-minute solution. McDonald trimmed his demands for a two-year wage and benefits increase of 28½? down to a 19¾? package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place...
Lewis Strauss had not even come close to accusing Anderson of deliberate falsehood, but on television's Face the Nation he did point out that although most of the current agitation for stopping nuclear tests was "completely innocent of any political motive," there was also evidence of "a kernel of very intelligent, deliberate propaganda." Clint Anderson blew up. Cried he of Strauss: "He seeks to become the modern apostle of McCarthyism...
...candidate for official recognition as the subject of the ssth miraculous cure to be certified at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, works as hotel manager of the New Venture public house in Kernel Hempsted, Hertfordshire. "My boss was a little scared about me at first," he said last week. "But now I'm working 12 hours...
...cashew nut is covered with a hard tough shell that has a thin layer of black oil underneath. This oil is quite corrosive to the skin. It is in the shell, however, which is left in India -in fact is used for fuel-and is not in the kernel that...