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...student is a stubborn case, there is a process called indoctrination through labor, which means he is put to work in a gang, on repairing Peking's city walls or digging sewers. Food is rationed at 20 ounces of kaoliang (millet) and one ounce of peanut oil a day, topped with occasional boiled potatoes and cabbage and about two ounces of meat a week. Students follow a 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. routine, broken only by two half-hour rest periods...
...baffled. Some of those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...
...domestic bureaus, three in Canada and three overseas), started the Dallas edition, put in a humor column and developed the W.S.J.'s trademark: the front page project story. These pieces weave together a number of loose news threads into single comprehensive stories on subjects ranging from the peanut industry to U.S. foreign policy...
Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics...
...hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...