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...father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips of bacon, hot lemonade. (Hughes's other culinary tastes are mostly simple. He likes steaks, roast beef and pudding, but also has a flaring passion for curry-derived from a four-year tour of bank duty in Bombay.) He is usually in his office by 8:45, works until...
...France has laid out a network of 111 stops in West Africa, Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. Long-isolated areas such as Mauritania (pop. 793 whites, 545,000 natives), Lake Chad, the Cameroons, are now within 18 hours of Paris and do a fast-growing business in pineapples, cotton and beef, all flown out by Air France...
Sunspots are storms in the sun's surface layer of bright, turbulent gas. They send out blasts of radiation and high-speed particles that hit the earth's atmosphere and form ionized (electrified) layers at high altitudes. Ordinary sunlight does this too, but sunspots beef up the layers and make them strong enough to divert TV signals that would normally pass through into outer space...
...that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so frozen that toes fall off without giving pain. And when Chips, the ship's carpenter, dies, they find that his flesh can be eaten with an easy conscience, once they have decided to call it beef...
Meat Preserver. To keep poultry, beef and other meats fresh for several days without refrigeration, American Cyanamid Co. has developed a product called Acronize. It contains a minute amount of aureomycin, an antibiotic. Applied to meat, it stops the early growth of bacteria, main cause of food spoilage...