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...principal social outlet for Super Bowl mania is getting together with friends to party, or at least munch, and watch the game. Some gatherings are formalized affairs, involving early invitations, official N.F.L. team bunting and other decorations purchased far in advance. Supermarkets in Knoxville, Tenn., report mountains of potato chips carted away in the days before the game; fast-food franchises put on extra help to handle the halftime hamburger crush...
...kickoff of the Oklahoma-Nebraska game, and as a result don't wash or brush your teeth until 6:00 that night. You're still cheering and taking in every play, but you start to realize that your body doesn't run quite as smoothly with Lays Potato Chips as fuel...
Maximum Penalty. Kepone, a lethal white powder that was widely used against ants, roaches and potato bugs, was developed by Allied in 1951; in 1974 Allied turned the manufacturing of Kepone over to a newly formed Hopewell firm called Life Science Products Co., which was owned by two former Allied staffers and got both its equipment and raw material from Allied. Judge Merhige dismissed as unproved a prosecution charge that Life Science was an Allied "captive," set up merely to spare the big chemical company the bother of complying with the pollution laws. But the judge's sentence suggested...
...Mezzanine level Sunday, tuxedoed, pleasant, up-with-people-looking servants patrolled around with trays of hors-d'oeuvres oblivious to the pilferers who reduced them to hopeless shambles of parsley and potato chips within minutes...
During his mission, Stromberg found himself paired with a potato picker from Idaho, a reformed thief from Baltimore and a Japanese missionary who introduced Stromberg to the language, customs, and life he would have to lead. But Stromberg found it very easy to get along with his companions: "You forget a lot of yourself when you're working with somebody to accomplish a common goal that exists outside of yourself.," he says. "Especially one you're totally dedicated to and believe...