Word: bagful
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...through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice pronounces it. Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen." A correct response brings an encouraging "Yes. That's correct...
...agreed to fight Mildenberger last week in Frankfurt, the first thing he insisted on was an impartial non-German referee. That point won, the fight figured to be a cinch. Bookies made Cassius a l-to-10 favorite, and even the promoters-with a fat TV contract in the bag-made little effort to build up the German as a challenger. "Do you think our Karl has a chance?" a Frankfurt cab driver asked one of the promoters. Sighed his passenger: "To live...
Some of the things visitors like-or dislike-surprise their hosts. Being able to take a grocery bag of food up to a hotel room is an unaccustomed freedom, and so is walking on park lawns. A general from inflation-plagued Brazil was pleased that "during the five weeks I was in New York the prices stayed the same." The attention given a family traveling with children is a boon. "You could take 50 restaurants in London," says one Englishman, "and not find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty...
Into a green duffel bag and a green foot locker that bore the stenciled words, "Lance Cpl. C. J. Whitman," he stuffed provisions to sustain him during a long siege and to cover every contingency: Spam, Planters peanuts, fruit cocktail, sandwiches and boxes of raisins, jerricans containing water and gasoline, rope, binoculars, canteens, transistor radio, toilet paper, and, in a bizarre allegiance to the cult of cleanliness, a plastic bottle of Mennen spray deodorant. He also stowed away a private armory that seemed sufficient to hold off an army: machete, Bowie knife, hatchet, a 6-mm. Remington bolt-action rifle...
...Somewhere," mused Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 24, "there is a ten-year-old boy who is going to whip me." Meanwhile, Cassius is bumming around. Last week's punching bag was Brian London, a 32-year-old Blackpudlian whose face should be on posters warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both...