Word: shakerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, Shaker Morris DeBakey, 80 this week, came to the U.S. from Lebanon when he was 15. By the time his son Michael was in high school, Shaker DeBakey owned a drugstore where the boy helped out and nourished the desire-acquired years earlier-to become a doctor. From his father, says Mike DeBakey, he learned his early-rising habits, the absolute abhorrence of wasted time that has marked his en tire career. His mother, whom DeBakey remembers as "the most compassionate and sweetest person I've ever known," also contributed to his career. She taught her two sons...
...table salt shaker gets only 4% of the 13 million tons of salt produced in the U.S. each year. The rest goes into a vast variety of products: pickles and ice cream, lipstick and dyes, catchup and candy, cattle feed and air conditioners, plastics and newspapers. The world's biggest producer of salt-and the source of nearly a third of the salt used for all purposes in the U.S.-is Chicago's Morton Salt Co., which is known to most Americans through its motto, "When it rains, it pours...
...overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
...Negro, Frank, that's Bernie Hamilton, and Julie, that's Barbara Barie, set up house just outside of town, named Plainesville. Really, it's in Ohio. Julie's daughter (played by a snot nose, from Shaker Heights I bet) soon has company--it came out in between, you know. Then the white husband comes back and wants his daughter. After all, living with Negroes, and it was partly his own child...
Barbara Danforth, 15, a Negro girl in the academically talented group at John Adams High School, helps to test a white boy in reading comprehension. Richard Malitz, 16, an eleventh-grade student at Shaker Heights High School who admits that he is "pretty good" in math and science, tests himself. "I think I want to be an engineer," he says, "but I wanted to try tutoring to see if I'd be fit for teaching instead...