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Personality: Stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 183 Ibs.) and bald, with a fringe of grey hair, a cool, methodical Yankee (his favorite breakfast dish: clam broth). He is a Unitarian. He spends as much time as possible at his New Hampshire farm, where he raises dairy and beef cattle. His six children (three sons, three daughters) have presented him with twelve grandchildren. His first wife, Beatrice Dowse, died in 1945. He was married in 1948 to Mrs. Jane Tompkins Rankin of Nashville...
Meat can shorten a man's life, warned Health Minister Ramon Carrillo last week in a speech to 4,000 fellow Argentines. With evangelistic fervor, Carrillo urged them to eat less meat and more vegetables, and to persuade other citizens of the Republic of Beef to do the same. The occasion was a government-sponsored conference on "Rational Eating." Officially, its purpose was to improve Argentines' health by educating them to "modify negative eating habits"; actually, the conference was another effort to relieve Argentina's beef shortage...
...pitchers overflowing with milk all remained vivid in our minds as we retreated back across the Vistula. And by the banks of the Charles our far-famed social franquility went to the winds as we gorged like men half starved on salad pilled high with thousand island dressing, reast beef of noticeable circumference and the ever present blessing of unlimited milk. Our months water even ever today's duck on least...
Recreation: Poker, bridge, cattle-raising (he has the largest privately owned herd of Ayrshires in Michigan), swimming, occasionally hunting & fishing. He gave up ice skating and fox hunting reluctantly after a couple of spills. Married for 40 years, three sons and three daughters, all married. His favorite food: chipped beef and salted peanuts...
Just off the Peruvian coastline, they were foodless, save for some beef. "I've sailed before, so the hurricane didn't worry me," says Arrow, "but I've never been really hungry. I was quite frightened." To make things worse a cloud layer, hovering off the Peruvian coast, put visibility at just about zero. Davis couldn't solve the food problem, but, being a competent navigator, he was not seriously handicapped by the lack of visibility. About 100 miles out, the engine sputtered; Davis investigated, and found that there was no diesel oil left. To op-operate the engine...