Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world figure-skating championships in Colorado Springs, two-time Champion David Jenkins, 22, fell behind in the compulsory figures but recouped with a fine free-skating performance to keep his title. The women's division was no contest at all for green-eyed Carol Heiss, 19, of Ozone Park, N.Y., who romped off with her fourth straight championship, hinted later that she might retire soon from competition...
...Best guess: about 150 are tried and true, will cause no problem, e.g., old familiars such as sodium benzoate (preservative in foods and many soft drinks), and other items less recognizable but long widely used-calcium or sodium propionate (mold inhibitor in bread) and butylated hydroxy anisole (antioxidant to keep fats from going rancid). Another 150 are expected to pass the tests, but 100 or more are in a medical no-man's land...
...McDonald, who threatened a strike July1 if there is no new contract by then, also had words for Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator had proposed that the union peg its wage demands to the average increase in steel productivity. Snapped Steelworker McDonald: "I wish Senator Kefauver would learn to keep his nose out of my business." Retorted Kefauver: "The price of steel is not just Mr. McDonald's business. It's the business of all the people...
...mostly with machines that had not even been invented in 1938. Farmers have invested $17.5 billion in 1,040,000 combines, 745,000 cornpickers, 590,000 pickup hay balers, 255,000 field forage harvesters and other machinery. They spend $1.5 billion for gasoline and oil each year just to keep the equipment going...
...demand for the more prolific egg layer has required more and more automation. Near Atlanta, Ga., Layer Breeder Roy Durr produced 500,000 chickens last year trying to keep up with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns...