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Johns Hopkins' William Foxwell Albright, 67, expert in Palestinian archaeology. Big (6 ft.), bald Sand-Sifter Albright began to explore Palestine in the days when such explorations consisted chiefly of dismounting from one's camel and commencing to dig. A scholar instead of a treasure hunter, he painstakingly collected and fitted together pottery fragments scorned by some earlier diggers, succeeded in bringing a large measure of order to the history of Palestine in the 3,000 years before Christ. Among his qualifications for archaeology: great physical durability and a command of some 25 languages, including enough...
...recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...
...Then the dry mix. Flour: two parts white, one part whole wheat. Add baking powder, two tablespoons. Add salt to taste -if the party had a drink the night before, add a little bit more salt so they can taste the pancake. Put it through the sifter together. Then stir until the batter is smooth...
...Horace Wells was not "Dazzled with hopes of a fortune. . . ." If he had been, he would have patented his discovery as he had patented two previous commercial discoveries, a coal sifter and a shower bath. When urged to patent this discovery, Wells declared, "No, let it be as free as the air we breathe...
...their trade association, opened the meeting by chanting in unison: WHERE'S THIS YEAR'S PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS PETER PIPER PICKED? There was not a man present that could not reel off Peter Piper without a bobble, and older hands did not boggle Theophilus the thistle-sifter. But full as they were of percussive alliteration they were no mere funsters. They were members of the 46-year-old National Pickle Packers Association representing 85% of an industry which has done a business of as much as $50,000,000 a year...