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Fine Days. How did Getty become a billionaire? His enemies carp that his prospects were so good from the very start that he could not miss, say: "If your dad left you all that money, you could do it, too." This does justice to neither Jean Paul Getty nor his ambitious, strong-willed father. When J. Paul was born in 1892, George F. Getty was a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer. On the day when he heard his son's first wail, he calmly turned on his heel, strode downstairs and said to the maid: "Set another place for lunch...
Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...
Canada First. As the course and aims of the new government emerged in the past two months. Canadians seemed increasingly pleased with the change of faces in Ottawa. Even Liberal newspapers found little to carp about, and leaders of the opposition parties promised not to "obstruct" the new government. On Oct. 14, Queen Elizabeth II will read a government policy statement to the new 23rd Parliament, and Diefenbaker will then present his legislative program to a hostile majority in the House of Commons. The opposition parties could join forces at any time to overthrow his government and force...
...workshop, students gleefully lay into Engle's poems with the master's own tools of cutting criticism. But few critics carp at his ability as a teacher, and no one doubts his talents as a recruiter of potential poets. Even British Poet Stephen Spender has referred a prospect to him. Englemen wrote fully one-third of the poems in Poets Under Forty, to be published this summer by the Meridian Press. And Henry Rago, editor of Poetry magazine, says: "No poet in the U.S. has done as much for young poets as Paul Engle...
...characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...