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...1950s, at the peak of its financial might, Texaco was the most profitable oil company in the U.S. and one of the best known. Millions of Americans watched the Texaco Star Theater television show, featuring Milton Berle, and a decade later any child could sing the jingle "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star." With exploration, refining and retail operations from Abilene to Aberdeen, the company has generated huge wealth and no small amount of controversy in its 86-year history...
RATHER THAN destroying a city in the old scientific style, an English major might suggest sending a Harvard professor behind enemy lines to broadcast lectures on the use of the word "the" as traced through Milton's Paradise Lost. When everyone in the enemy country falls asleep, we could then run in and wreak havok by painting every third house magenta, or possibly mauve...
Joining the ranks of Keats and Milton, John Updike '54 opened an exhibit of his manuscripts at the Houghton Museum yesterday with a discussion about the general value of manuscripts and the controversy surrounding one of his books...
...Milton E. Jones, 17, was arrested late Sunday in Buffalo, and Theodore Simmons, 18, also of Buffalo, was arrested early today in San Diego, Calif., the commissioner said...
...once they see it work," says Cudmore, "they become believers for life." Both "Skyro" and "Bug-Eye," a hand-held portable microscope that enables children to view living insects, have been marketed by Milton Bradley...