Word: pollen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President cannot live on jelly beans alone. Less well known than his eye for candy is Ronald Reagan's taste for bee pollen, a powdery substance that many health-food devotees consider a wonder food. Though unsupported by scientifc evidence, advocates tout it as a preventive for everything from impotence to aging. When Reagan wants a bee-pollen snack, he can now reach for something named in his honor, a candy bar called the President's Lunch...
...snack's creator, 67-year-old Bruce Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz., introduced the President's Lunch last November in a patriotic-looking red-silver-and-blue wrapper. Besides bee pollen, the ingredients include rolled oats, peanut butter, kelp, sunflower seeds and raisins. Brown predicts health-food fans will be abuzz about the bar this summer, when the 1.3-oz. snack becomes widely available in supermarkets for about...
...Harvard Professor Matthew S. Meselson is persisting in his claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained pollen. Now back from a trip to Thailand, the scientists say they observed honey bees on defecation flights spraying the yellow spots that the government says are the residue of Soviet chemical weapons...
This skepticism began with their observations that bee feces bore striking similarities--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which contained pollen...
...looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went to high school in Mount Vernon, a leafy suburb north of Manhattan, then on to Cornell, where he picked up the nickname Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university...