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Died. Ataullah K. Ozai-Durrani, 66, an immigrant Afghan who in 1941 walked into the Manhattan office of a General Foods executive, set up his portable stove and demonstrated a quick-cooking rice he had developed, so handy that General Foods marketed it as Minute Rice, which with its imitations accounts for 25% of all rice cooked by U.S. housewives, filled its inventor's ricebowl with royalties estimated at more than $1,000,000; of cancer; in Denver...
Provincial Grocer. Vladimir Ulyanov sat on the stove in a spare kitchen in his grandfather's house and read Das Kapital, convinced that here at last was the weapon to bring down the state and lift oppression from the backs of the people. Among his first disciples were his younger brother and his sisters. While he worked for a law degree and wherever he went, Vladimir founded or joined Marxist study groups, and he traveled abroad to meet the exiled leaders of the outlawed Marxist party, then still known as the Social Democrats...
...African diplomatic family that moved into a Washington apartment was unable to cope with the stove, and built a cooking fire on the floor. The flames were extinguished before the kitchen caught fire, but when the Africans moved, they refused to pay for the damage that had been done. They invoked diplomatic immunity when the landlord threatened...
Singled out as the best features of off-campus life were privacy, friendliness, informality, absence of rules, variety, "the fun of moving," Edmands' zinc bathtubs, Gilman's Iron stove, and cooking one's own meals...
...companies have since begun making many cooking utensils with Teflon, but the material has moved far beyond the stove. Last week Du Pont announced that it will mass-produce thin, transparent Teflon film, the latest variety of the plastic, at a new Circleville, Ohio, plant, and will cut the base price from...