Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrate his first birthday (Nov. 25), the White House lifted the swaddling curtain for the first fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...Futurama Bowl near San Jose has a $2,600,000 layout that includes a five-acre parking lot, nursery facilities for more than 180 children, a restaurant-bar, a dressing room, semiautomated food and beverage service, free coffee, a "Glamorama Room" with physical therapist, body-building equipment and steam room. Says Owner Nick Bebek Jr.: "These women start to take inches off their behinds, build their bust up two inches. They go insane! Then their complexions start to get clearer and they wonder why, and then they realize it's from the steam room melting off all that junk...
...office on Calcutta's fashionable Park Street last week, fluorescent lights burned late into the night as a team of engineers bent over their drawing boards rushing to complete plans for Asia's biggest steam power plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable...
...last Dutt won a contract to build the $28 million Durgapur steam power plant in West Bengal. He got the job by combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist. To the Indian government, it was an irresistible deal: because he designed the Bokaro steam plant, which became a model for all thermal plants in India, Harry Kuljian's name was already held in high regard in New Delhi...
Work begins slowly. The men lounge in corners, chatting about home and family, pinching the waitresses as they arrive. Slowly the tempo of preparation rises. Cleavers whack, pots rattle, steam billows up. Jokes and insults fly like salt and pepper; the chef gives the back of his nasty old tongue to a cook caught pilfering a pullet; the broiler man tips a pot of boiling water off a rack and-YEEEOOOWWW...