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...research laboratory in the U.S. on a 55-acre site at Tarrytown, N.Y., also keeps 155 women busy in a mammoth test kitchen in suburban White Plains. The kitchens are run by Vice President Ellen-Ann Dunham, a bright and forceful woman of 47, who likes to cook from scratch. Both lab and kitchen are filled with people who have been selected for their keen sense of taste and smell, and-more important-their ability to describe differences...
...strikers are running into debt. Steelworker John Novasich had some savings piled up when the strike started, but now he is a month behind on his mortgage payments, has yet to pay the doctor bill for the operation his wife underwent last June, and is wondering how he can scratch the $160 he still owes on his son's tuition at Youngstown University...
...Hamlin, a freshman, won the University Handicap cross-country race yesterday, and established a new record for the Charles River course. Hamlin triumphed in both the handicap and scratch divisions, a feat unprecedented in the history of the event...
...formula picks out the theoretically fastest ("scratch") boat, assigns varying time allowances to boats that are theoretically slower. The hope was that it would allow boats designed for seaworthiness and family cruising to compete with racing machines. Bases for the formula were assumptions that were sacred 30 years ago: fast boats must have deep keels, tall masts, narrow beams; slow boats have the opposite...
Under her unorthodox rig, Storm sailed fine, both on and off the wind. She finished 3 hr. 18 min. 26 sec. behind the scratch boat. But with the extra four hours' handicap, Storm won handily, beat the fleet on corrected time...