Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the Bend in 80 Days is only good. It is a six-part slight exaggeration about Perelman's 1971 trip along the route taken by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. (Fifteen years ago, Perelman wrote the film script for the Mike Todd spectacular.) Perelman's traveling companion was not Passepartout but a 6-ft. 1-in. "toothsome cupcake" named Sally-Lou Claypool. Aboard H.M.S. Choleria, 19th century British sang-froid bunks amiably with the 20th century cynicism of a hornswoggled American tourist...
...Wilmer David ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 44, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development at $38,000 a year. A North Carolina Congressman and onetime major league pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates, Mizell served on a House subcommittee handling aid to depressed areas. "This is my kind of bailiwick so to speak," he says of his new job. "I think the opportunity to serve in an area where I had such a real interest and involvement led me to stay...
When paleontology Student Douglas Lawson set out to explore Texas' Big Bend National Park three years ago, he was confident that his fossil hunt would be productive. After all, remnants of creatures ranging from the ferocious dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex to the first true bird, Archaeopteryx, had already been unearthed in the fossil-rich wasteland. What Lawson found exceeded his wildest hopes: fragments of huge wing bones imbedded in a sandstone outcropping in a remote part of the park. Now, after comparing the bones with the remains of similar creatures found elsewhere, Lawson has announced that they belong...
Harper said that other organizations at Harvard claim to attack discrimination in the University but that "they've failed to bring sufficient pressure on the University to make it bend toward a more democratic institution...
Saying No. Weekends in January and early February, Boulac and his fellow coaches gather at Michiana Regional Airport in South Bend to greet prospects flown in for a packed round of parties, sumptuous meals, meetings with admissions officers and chats with Devine. Boulac admits that all this courting could leave a 17-year-old limp, particularly if ten or 15 schools are hot after him. "The toughest thing for a kid today," says Boulac, "is to say no. When a coach comes 1,000 miles to see you at home, it's hard to say you're going...