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After the meet had been decided, Yale's Bill Flippin and Sam Streibert put the icing on the cake by clearing 6 ft., 6 in. in the high jump, setting new Cage and school marks...
...spectators broke through the police cordon around the church, nearly crushed the bride. After cutting the wedding cake, Jackie acknowledged the toasts gracefully, then noted that her mother had always told her to wait and judge a man by his correspondence. With quiet humor, she held up a postcard from Bermuda with a picture of a passion flower. On the back was scrawled: "Wish you were here. Cheers. Jack." "This," said Jackie, "is my entire correspondence from Jack...
...California, dozens of communities of monks, nuns and brothers have found that the best way to support themselves and their works is to become enterprising entrepreneurs. Though they have no desire for riches, the religious communities have installed mass-production factories, are turning out cheese, wine, bread, jellies, fruit cake, even beef on the hoof, selling them both nationally and locally. Usually of excellent quality, their products have received a sales boost from the rising interest in gourmet foods and, in the case of such items as hearty monastic bread, from the nation's growing health consciousness...
...this cake was some frosting that would appeal to many a businessman. Samuelson recommended that if business worsens and it becomes necessary to open a "second line of defense," Congress should rev up consumer spending by cutting personal income tax rates by three or four percentage points for one and all through the end of 1961, and by giving power to the President to extend the reduction through the end of 1962. Bucking the liberals' demands for easier money, Samuelson held firm against broadly lower interest rates (but urged a 4½% maximum on mortgages to stimulate housing), lest...
...alcohol does. Reports Dr. Keys: "A fairly common experience for us is the wife who finds her husband staying out more and more. He may be interested in another woman, or just like being with the boys. So she fishes around in the cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of boredom, and the subconscious feeling that she is entitled to something, because she's being deprived of something else." For the army of compulsive eaters-from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing is a war with the will that...