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...heart disease; in Canaan, Conn. A tinkerer as a child, Kleinschmidt was only 15 when he began work on the Teletype, an invention that eventually made him a multimillionaire. Among his 100-odd patented inventions: the stock market ticker, an automatic fishing reel, a police radio-teleprinter and a macaroni-twisting machine...
...HEARTY. The metabolism works overtime when the body is exposed to cold. As the human's heat pump, the body has to be fueled-with food. In Maine logging camps, a typical meal consists of vegetable soup, baked beans, bread and jam, macaroni and cheese, ground-beef casserole, pancakes, spaghetti and meatballs, beef stew, fresh baking-powder biscuits, in no particular order. Somewhat more delicately, Julia Child girds for winter with bean soup, enriched with leftover beef or lamb stew or whatever, and home-baked bread. And long johns...
...truce was called. The Eagle Point schools finally reopened last week, and in the high school cafeteria a hopeful banner said: MACARONI AND CHEESE, WE WANT TO GRADUATE PLEASE. But after almost two months only about half the senior class returned to classes and only about two-thirds of the younger students. Some had transferred to nearby districts (average tuition: $160 per month) and could not transfer back. Others had taken jobs or simply dropped out. In addition, 15 teachers had resigned and gone job hunting...
...outdone by their countrywomen, the notoriously foppish young men of London's Macaroni Club (so named because of its members' love of Continental food and fashions) have also begun sporting coiffures of enormous height. Most Englishmen, however, are turning to a more natural look. The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles...
...athletes living at the Olympic Village. Accommodations at the high-rise development on the Inn River will be spartan, but 60 cooks in the mess hall will see that none of the competitors go hungry. Each athlete is apportioned 6,000 calories a day of such dishes as Macaroni Bordelais and Ham Steak Hawaii; officials are rationed to 3,000-calorie menus. The following guide, based on reports from TIME correspondents, limns the essentials of each sport and spotlights some top competitors. Events are run under the metric system: a meter is slightly more than 3 ft.; a kilometer...