Word: becks
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...always Jackie Presser's ambition to be president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric...
Animal Behaviorist Benjamin Beck of the University of Illinois at Chicago calls attention to still another human delusion, the species bias. Says he jokingly: "On tests for giraffes, where intelligence might be equated with neck length, humans test out below horses and ostriches...
Despite the difficulties, scientists have been trying to devise ways of evaluating animal intelligence. So far, none of them works perfectly. One theory holds that the bigger the brain size in proportion to the body and the more creased the cerebrum portion, the brighter the animal. But, notes Beck, "the human cerebral cortex occupies no greater a proportion in the human brain than in any other primate...
Martha Nimbly, a sophomore living in South House, and John Beck, a senior in North House, plan a June 21 wedding in their hometown of Provo. Utah They are both practicing Mormons...
...which may come as a shock to faithful Child lovers. Was it not Julia who proclaimed in 1966, "I will never do anything but French cooking!"? Her 716-page first volume Mastering the Art of French Cooking, written with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and published in 1961, is still regarded as the definitive English-language work on classic French cuisine. Her 207-part French Chef and subsequent TV series, along with her five books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, earned her two prestigious awards from the French government. Indeed, Californian Child, nee Julia McWilliams, has done more...