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This modest beginning in research, however, has already produced remarkable returns. Papermakers have invented everything from noiseless popcorn bags to paper tents, are currently working with textile manufacturers to develop paper suitable for disposable surgical gowns, bed sheets and men's shirts. Paper coated with plas tic or aluminum is much used in food packaging. Other new products...
Henny Penny was now screaming. She calmed herself and continued: "But I love the people of this country. I love the newspaper boy on the corner, the fish-monger with his song, the little child eating popcorn. Ah, people of this kingdom, I love...
...Popcorn, happily, remains, but it comes in different paper bags now, and it's sold behind a forbidding teak counter. The walls of the theatre are what Kramer calls a "strange gray"--though the ceiling hasn't been touched yet. And of course the name is all different. Still, the redecoration is damned attractive and long overdue. And the movies scheduled are refreshingly similar to the UT's standbys. One can hand over that extra thirty-five cents in the new admission charge almost cheerfully...
...California that they would rather see me in the White House in '64." There is only one Kennedy defeat: George Cabot Lodge licks Ted Kennedy. "I call it a defeat at the hands of the little man," Lodge explains.... The Loeb Theatre, after trying everything from vaudeville acts to popcorn machines, closes its doors. The building is converted into a dorm for freshmen of the Class...
...days of smaller towns and more frugal ways, Christmas was a simpler and a quieter time. In Indiana everyone cut his own tree in the woods and decorated it with strings of popcorn, gingerbread men, chains of red and green paper, and small colored candles (it was a worrisome thing for Father, who planted himself in a nearby chair with a bucket of water at hand). On Christmas Eve the whole town went to church to see the tableaux of the Nativity performed by the Sunday School children, draped in tablecloths, piano covers and nightgowns. Next morning came the presents...