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...looked like the staging area for the world's largest order of French fries. But no, it was merely one more odd happening in the life of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra, who last week wound up with a ton of taters on the lawn of his Montclair, N.J., home. The seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow...
...155½. Smaller companies scored even more spectacular gains. Genentech, the gene-splicing firm, jumped 95%, to 66 5/8. Zenith Laboratories, a drug manufacturer, more than tripled, from 6 1/2 to 20. Other industries with high-flying stocks included drugs, retail clothing, insurance, cable TV, pollution control, and lawn and garden products...
...chief usher, who is in charge of running the physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement. Scouten was supervising the redecoration of the Oval Office when one of J.F.K.'s staff...
From the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Quad to the White House lawn, Atul A. Gawande has tried his hand at prose composition, policy-making, and patient care...
...Officers noted the theft of a lawn statue at 1 Francis Ave. created in the likeness of an owl. The missing owl is worth...