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...into the school, she had to go to court. It was a cruel situation." Seventeen-year-old Kim Messer's father is an Army veteran, and her elder brother attended the Citadel before leaving for medical reasons. Her passion for things military is already intense: in high school in Clover, South Carolina, she became the group commander for the Air Force Junior ROTC, helped organize her high school's first military ball and spent the summer in rigorous ROTC training at Fort Knox. "She's got grit," says Harvey Messer, who adds that he is nevertheless worried about the reception...
Dozens of independent regional snack companies have folded in recent years. "Frito-Lay makes no bones about it," says Spencer Hill, vice president of sales and marketing of Clover Club Foods, a $60 million manufacturer of salty snacks in Kaysville, Utah. "They want to be the only salted-snack company in the country." Another food-company executive says Frito-Lay fields marketing "warlords" assigned to ride herd on regional companies. "They are the best-run company in the food business," this executive says, without rancor. "They are terrific at what they are doing--and we don't want anything...
...Interstate and strips of EconoLodges and Burger Kings. For modern cruise-control motorists, the fractured skeleton of the U.S. highway system has been relegated to the realm of the cultural archaeologist, a reminder of how Americans used to travel before the age of the jug handle and the clover leaf...
...accurately as a kind of de-clawed cat in the matter of Lizzie Cameron, but when he meets the beautiful Miriam Talbott, a young art student, and accompanies her to Chartres, it seems that a more robust interest may develop. He persuades himself that she resembles his dead wife Clover, who committed suicide seven years before...
Before the potato came to Ireland, the Irishate clover salad to supplement their traditionaldiet of meat, butter, milk and oatmeal, withvitamin C. In the 17th century the conqueringEnglish, not yet aware that everyone should eatfive serving of fruit and veggies a day, scornedwhat they saw as this uncultured Irish cuisine.the Irish promptly decided to adopt the clover asa symbol of ethnic pride...