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...know an American who survived five years in a Japanese prison camp by loading his thin soup with bugs; there is no telling what delights Julia Child could stir up. Since the insects outweigh us 12 to 1, they could keep us alive through many expanding and otherwise hungry generations...
...scantily clad young women strolled the sidewalks a few blocks from New York's Madison Square Garden, eying the men passing by and uttering an inviting "Hi!" They were posing as prostitutes, trying to get arrested in order to stir a protest against the city's new antiloitering law. But two streetwise cops caught the ploy. "They didn't have the moves," scoffed...
...first quarter of this year, business was heading back toward its pre-slump levels at a rapid clip-so rapid as to stir some fear that the economy might become overheated. Real gross national product-total output of goods and services discounted for inflation -surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7%, astonishing for a huge, mature economy. Last week a "flash" estimate circulated within the Government that the real G.N.P. increase during the current quarter might slow to a rate of about 3%. While such early estimates are often unreliable, Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economic adviser...
...reads: "The general most earnestly requires and expects a due observance of those articles of war ... which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness." Wherever he moves, secretaries are kept busy handling the prodigious number of letters he turns out each day. Many of them are written to Congress to stir up pay and equipment for the Army ("100,000 dollars will be but a fleabite to our demands at this time"), especially munitions. It took him months to get the Congress to approve uniform standards of pay, terms of reenlistment, and such things as the number of men prescribed...
...young Gilbert Stuart, that precocious son of a Rhode Island snuff grinder, who created a stir in Newport even in his teens, has also departed for London. He is only 20 and his future cannot be predicted, but his talent is evident in his youthful portrait of Mrs. John Bannister and her son. Another unpredictable talent is that of John Trumbull, a year younger than Stuart and born to wealth (as Stuart was not). Trumbull's father. Governor of Connecticut, recognized his son's precocity and enrolled him as a third-year student at Harvard at 15, then...