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...Hugh Downs may have reached his zenith the night that Paar took the powder. Before Hugh was through (looking straight into the camera, he implored: "Jack, come back"), not a viewer in 5,000,000 could doubt that he had watched a masterful high-wire artist solemnly treading his dangerous way between Paar and NBC. Taking over for Paar was another, even more demanding matter. In the past, affable Hugh served as an excellent, soothing contrast to Paar's suppressed frenzy and suavely spread oil on troubled waters. Without Paar, only the oil remained. Filling in for the boss...
...monsters of sex (notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science was eagerly enlisted in the service of love. Late in Louis XIV's reign, a certain Dr. Venette soberly advised that dried Egyptian crocodile kidneys pounded into a powder and diluted in sweet wine made the perfect aphrodisiac...
...danger if it ever comes to believe that the ultimate victory of freedom does not depend upon the performances of free societies and of free men. "Put your trust in God," said Oliver Cromwell to his soldiers, before crossing a river to do battle, "but mind to keep your powder...
When the Trieste finally settled on the bottom, it raised clouds of fine white silt. Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer, the scientist in charge of the dive, identified the "dust" as diatomaceous ooze, the silica skeletons of small sea creatures, often used as scouring powder. In effect, the Trieste landed in a cloud...
Working with the Army Quartermaster Research and Engineering Command (which suffers from chronic G.I. complaints about tasteless preserved food), the Evans scientists found that waste parts of many foods (e.g., vegetable stems, meat scraps) contain flavor enzymes that can be extracted and preserved separately as a fine powder. When a pinch of these enzymes is added to the preserved food, they go to work on the flavor precursors and restore a good part of the natural fresh flavor. The trick works on many kinds of canned and frozen foods, including blueberries, string beans, broccoli and meat...