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...there. Step studying Serbe-Creatian Bab for a moment. Swallow your mouthful of Wheat Chex and put down your spoon. For a morning's frivolous diversion, for a moment's respite in the long and wearying ordeal of examination time, for some--gosh, kids--good old-fashioned fun, we have prepared a very special treat for you. Feast your eyes! Acclimate yourselves to the exhilarating new trends that are sweeping our University: Secondary Schools (Percentage) Radcliffe Public Private Foreign 1965 (approx...
...institute's specialists take a week to evaluate each patient in terms of physical potential, language disability, and medical and psychiatric problems before any treatment starts. Then the first physical therapy is begun: a therapist asks the patient to lift his arm as if to put a spoon to his mouth. Most likely he cannot complete the movement, so the therapist (usually a woman) gently helps him. At times she gets him to push his hand against hers to strengthen the muscles. Hemiplegic patients stay at the institute an average of three to six months. "By the time they...
...assigned to escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita: "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil...
Squeamish diners have long made spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty café is called a "greasy spoon." But an investigation of restaurant hygiene in Connecticut has shown that, of all dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...
...best method of improving restaurant cleanliness, says the Public Health Service, is the complaint-loud, and preferably in front of other customers. And until complaints begin to get results, prudent barflies can presumably benefit from Connecticut's experience by sipping whisky from a spoon...