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...practical, predictive standard, New York Democrats could only hope to find a sacrificial lamb to run against Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Yet during one of the bleat-ingest, bloodiest party conventions in the state's recent history, four lambs battled each other all the way to the altar. The one who made it: Robert M. Morgenthau, 43, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and son of Franklin Roosevelt's longtime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau...
...Signal Corps loaded it with hundreds of thousands of words of Teletype messages, including space-filling test items such as the text of the Constitution of the U.S. Courier's appetite is prodigious. During the 14 minutes that it stays within range of a ground station, it can ingest the 773,693 words of the King James Version of the Bible...
Fact is that antlers are superb collectors of radioactive fallout. Like bones, antlers are made largely of calcium compounds, and radioactive strontium behaves chemically like calcium. Deer ingest strontium with their forage. In slowly maturing humans, only a small part of the skeleton is built each year, and therefore human bone shows an averaging of strontium over many years. But a deer's antlers are grown afresh each year, concentrating in a handy package a calcium-strontium mixture that neatly records the prevalence of strontium for that year alone...
...required by the College to pay for my board at the House dining room, and yet no effort is made by the College to provide board which I can with a clear conscience ingest. Yet at the same time every facility is provided for the benefit of the followers of certain other sects who observe Lenten restrictions on diet...
Each morning company guards pluck children from mothers' sides as they pass the plant gates. Eight and a half hours daily the moppets play, snooze, ingest assorted vitamins, watch test planes zoom by. Mothers pay 50? a day for food, Curtiss-Wright pays the overhead. Beamed one mother recently: "It's marvelous for Terry.. He eats his squash and tomato now without trouble and can even tie his shoes...