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...First Lady are traditionally as dulcet as the ladies' favorite dessert of peppermint mousse. When Mrs. Lyndon Johnson invited 50 women "doers" to the first of a new series of campaign-oriented repasts devoted to national problems last week, she did not anticipate a side order of vinegar from one of her best-known guests, Negro Entertainer Eartha Kitt...
Surveyor's dramatic recovery overshadowed another space venture involving 1,000 vinegar gnats, 1,000 flour beetles, 560 wasps, 120 frog eggs, 875 amoebae, 13,000 bacteria cells, 78 wheat seedlings, nine pepper plants, 10 million spores of orange bread mold and 64 blue spiderwort. All this was packed aboard a space ark called Biosatellite 2 and launched into earth orbit from Cape Kennedy...
...turn salicylic acid into acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), a compound related to acetic acid is used. If the raw aspirin is then cleared of impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...
...other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated by a faith in the enduring human spirit...
Stilwell's friends and family held out hope. For one thing, the missing plane was equipped with a four-man life raft, flares, and other emergency gear. Besides, Stilwell had always had his father's famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group...