Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Karl Wallenda was a boy in Germany, the story goes, he answered an ad asking for someone who could do a handstand. The ad did not say just where the handstand was to be done...
...previous incarnation, David Weltha says, he may have been an 11th century monk. In another, he may have been an Indian boy who died in 1825 at age nine. Weltha also claims that he can occasionally discern auras around people, and he wholeheartedly believes in astrology, E.S.P. and other psychic manifestations. Such beliefs might seem suitable for a guru holding forth in the Himalayas. But should they be taught in a class by a tenured faculty member at a major state university? That is the question that is stirring the campus of Iowa
...with voters. Gregory's son was a political activist in the late '60s at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., campaigned for Carter and held down a job in the capital as legal counsel for a U.S. Senate subcommittee on education. But come November, Peck's good boy hopes to win a seat in Congress from his home state of California. When he needs counsel, the aspiring politician huddles with a formidable pair of campaign cochairmen: Father Gregory and former California Governor Pat Brown...
Harvard's other All-American sent such a shock through the pool that he almost shorted out the electric timing system. Golden Boy Malcolm F.S. Cooper, ranked 35th nationally in the 50-yd. freestyle before yesterday, took the supersonic transport back and forth across the pool and landed 20.84 seconds later to sneak into the consolation finals with the 12th fastest qualifying time...
...baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch. There is Wilfred, sympathetic for the workers in the 1926 General Strike, but winsomely envious of a fellow cleric gone off to drive a train. And Ronnie, ever the six-year-old boy who had brought a bunch of fresh-picked flowers to his new mother, always needy for the mothering attention of elegant ladies in great country houses. It was under Lady Acton's affectionate (if platonic) wing that he translated his celebrated Bible...