Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy. He spends his summers on a farm in New Hampshire, inherited from his mother. There are over 300 acres of woodland, which he has left strictly alone. On a long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned Pullman, that rides high over the rutted dirt roads...
...Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England, the Duke of Windsor entered the autumn tournament with a handicap of 16. Wearing a waterproof hat that looked like a combination sou'wester and deerstalker, the Duke shot a 98. Next day, on the eleventh hole, he tore up his card, told club officials: "My game's so bad it's no good going on. It's all right to be playing like this in France . . . ordinary hurdles. But this course is the Grand National of golf courses...
...design panel produced plans for the permanent home UNESCO hopes to build in Paris. The main feature of the plan, as conceived by France's Bernard Zehrfuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer: a smaller edition of big sister's Manhattan "sandwich on end" (TIME, Sept. 22), with a cluster of conference halls near...
...Kraft's specialty. He set up stoneworking shops for children's homes, wrote a book, Adventure in Jade, on his expeditions up & down the U.S. He even took his hobby to work. At sales' meetings Businessman Kraft would hand out jade lucky charms from his workshop, sandwich in a little pep talk. "Rub this between the palms of the hand until warm," he would say, "make a wish, then go out and work like hell...
...Robot Cook. At Manhattan's airlines terminal and other busy places, Lunch-O-Mat Corp. installed a new food-vending machine which uses a Raytheon radar stove (TIME, Oct. 28, 1946) to cook and serve a hamburger, a baked ham sandwich, frankfurter or coffee within 15 seconds after coins are dropped in the slot. The vender also serves cold sandwiches, pies, milk and fruit juices. Price of the machine...