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Some of the stringers are unexpected types-for example, Dolly Connelly of Bellingham, Wash., a housewife who bakes very good oatmeal-walnut yeast bread, and who is also a freelance journalist who covers her area of the Northwest U.S. with a bright and knowing touch. Most of the part-time correspondents, however, are full-time professional journalists who hold positions of importance in the areas they cover...
Called continuous-flow brewing and developed after six years of research, the new method does away with the old kettles and the old process. Instead, the ingredients of beer-grain, water, hops and yeast-run through a maze of stainless-steel pipes, coils and tanks in response to commands from a 30-ft. console of dials, buttons and lights. Though the brewing time remains the same-six weeks-the new plant costs less to build, requires less labor than traditional plants, can expand in small stages...
...waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent. When asked why, he replied, "Because yeast is yeast and waste is waste and never the twain shall meet." Like so many master plumbers at Harvard he was teaching a great deal more than the immediate matter at hand...
Take two carloads of flour, sift, add 2,750 gallons of shortening, 3½ tons of salt, 190,000 packets of yeast. Mix well. Let stand and rise for 19 hours. Mix again. Let stand another four hours. Roll into thin sheet and cut into small squares. Place in 300-ft.-long oven for three minutes at temperatures ranging from 560° to 620°. Yield: 28,280,000 saltine crackers...
...competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial vote, while CBS had only 15% and ABC 8%. But the commentary of NBC's public-affairs stars, from Huntley and Brinkley to Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor et al., lacked yeast. Brinkley may have had something when he said that the computer was likely to replace them...