Consumer Reports did an experiment in which it put a battery from a greeting card between two slices of ham.

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This came to mind in light of an experiment he did in the early 1960s.

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In an effort to keep with the times, Ascot did experiment in the Swinging Sixties - in 1968, men were permitted to wear lounge suits in the Royal Enclosure on the Friday of the meeting.

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