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...path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition, and I never had al lowed any in the mansion. I called up a fellow who I thought might be able to get it and said, 'John, I'm in a hell of a fix. I need you to deliver...
...both a bit insecure in their lines on opening night) trying vainly to recapture the aura of their 1940 production of Twelfth Night together. It suggests nothing so much as the U.S.S. Caine's Captain Queeg trying to relive his triumphal solution of the bygone cheese theft when a quart of fresh Strawberries was unaccounted for. "Shakespeare Revisited" is Shakespeare recidivous...
...acidified with citric acid passes through the resin, it loses most of its strontium and picks up a little extra sodium or calcium. A process using this principle was developed by scientists of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, captures 98% of the strontium, but it costs nearly 10? per quart-more than most dairy farmers get for their milk...
...atoms, they pick up positive electric charges from a current flowing through the solution. Then they slip through the membrane and lose themselves in the harmless salts. Dr. Gregor thinks that his process can extract 90% of the strontium 90 from milk at the cost of about ½? per quart. Annual cost of keeping U.S. milk reasonably safe: $230 million...
...Quart. Under the hood, the news is turbines. The Chrysler Corp.'s superbly smooth version of this engine, which runs on any inflammable fluid (the publicity department likes to take a car for a $500 spin on a quart of Arpege). is the engineering department's answer to slumping sales. Chrysler is using it in the Dodge Turbo Dart and Plymouth Turbo Fury. Britain's entry: the Rover T4, which was exhibited next to Rover's first turbine, the Jet I, demonstrated twelve years ago. All in all, the show was a record breaker: 450 entries...