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...motorists in most Eastern states, the orange tile roof of a Howard Johnson's restaurant is almost as familiar as a gas pump. The Johnson chain, which got its start near Boston 24 years ago, now stretches along highways from Maine to Florida, has outlets scattered all the way to Wisconsin. This year its 355 "stores" will serve 250 million customers and gross $150 million; they constitute the largest roadside restaurant chain in the world. But Founder Howard Johnson, a husky 54-year-old who spends as much time on the road as his best customers, is not satisfied...
Like a chameleon on a piece of Scotch plaid, the patient has a complex pattern of response. Several of the endocrine (ductless) glands go to work. The adrenals pump out both adrenalin and cortisone-like hormones. Both lobes of the pituitary step up their activity. So, probably, does the thyroid. Triggered by these hormonal reactions, about which much is yet to be learned, the body's chemistry changes in a dozen ways...
...were located. The Kennedy people had commandeered a four story building and had plastered it with sings and oversize pictures. On entering the first floor, we discovered three men and a woman in a large empty room, all talking earnestly into telephones. One man finished his conversation, turned to pump our hands, and led us to the elevator. He explained that Kennedy had taken over all but one floor, and that more Kennedy men were working in another building a few blocks away...
...hoaxes than H. L. Mencken's famed essay on the history of the U.S. bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...Cooler. General Motors announced an automobile air-conditioning unit as optional equipment for 1953 Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. The small unit will be installed in the luggage compartment, pump cold air into the car through a grill behind the rear seat. In temperatures up to 110°, said G.M., the unit will cool a car to "comfort." Price: about...