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After the multitiered extravaganza presented to him in Houston on the eve of his 55th birthday, Vice President Lyndon Johnson figured he had had his cake (and eaten it too). So when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive. Then President Kennedy had a surprise cake brought in, and the Texas birthday boy was downright breathless. It took him four mighty puffs to dispatch the cake's five candles. Tch-tched Florida Senator George Smathers: "Shameful for an ex-Senator...
...company's tutti-frutti ice cream, instructs the ice cream-making machinery just what grade and quantity of ice cream to make. In the kitchens of Sara Lee bakeries, another one stores recipes and orders the proper amount of butter and eggs; soon, it will also control the cake mixes, ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story Manhattan apartment house, and in Detroit computers tell...
...help out, the National Council of Churches volunteered to make up 80,000 box lunches (a cheese sandwich, an apple, a slice of pound cake) at a cut-rate 50? price for marchers...
...June and their five children to visit his mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short of his house, a car approached in the wrong lane. Gilliland swerved but could not escape. In the crash, Gilliland was killed, along with his son Raymond, 15, and his daughter Julia...
...office thievery, highlighting the petty-crime wave that has been plaguing office buildings from coast to coast. It would seem that few targets appear more attractive than a big-city tower of commerce: lots of victims, lots of loot, with floor after anonymous floor piled up like layer cake. Trouble is, a hard-working secretary too often finds her take-home pay going home in somebody else's pocket...