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...book prize was awarded to Greg Mitchell for The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics...
Most notable among the cast is Edward Upton, who plays Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Funny to the point of neurosis, he manages to maintain credibility and yet is in no danger of taking himself too seriously--a fatal error in a Gilbert and Sullivan production...
Crutcher also has numerous tangential stories within his plot, concerning felons who were abused when they were young--Crutcher even has one save Wilson's life. It seems that the author wants to encourage psychologists to accept play therapy with the same authority Upton Sinclair exercised on the meat-packing industry...
Things kept hopping for the editorial interns as well. In his first week as a reporter-researcher, Amherst's Bryant Rousseau called a factory near Prague to get some weapon prices and tracked a British arms expert to his home in Upton-upon-Severn. Ronald Amstutz, a photography major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was made responsible for illustrating the World Notes page and spent much of the summer scrambling to gather pictures from around the globe. One of his final duties: assigning a photographer, picking a site and getting his fellow interns to Brooklyn for the picture that...
Americans have a long history of prodding government to act when public health and dietary issues are at stake. Popular outrage over the Chicago meat- packing scandals, revealed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, The Jungle, gave rise to both a meat-inspection law and the predecessor to the modern FDA. The discovery, during World War II, that many draftees suffered from beriberi and other vitamin B deficiencies led to the government's creation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins and minerals...