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Psychologist David Lykken, one of the Minnesota researchers, thinks the study will shove the pendulum further away from the "radical environmentalism" of those who believe the characters of children are more or less created by their parents and environment. Lykken says Test Pilot Chuck Yeager is daring because he was "genetically endowed with a low scale of fearlessness," a trait that might have been redirected or tamped down but not eradicated. Says Psychologist Nancy Segal, a member of the project: "Parents can work to make a child less fearful, but they can't make that child brave...
...clean, antic style of the Warner Bros. cartoons lives in the pages of William the Backwards Skunk (Crown; $10.95). And why not? The artist-author is Chuck Jones, 74, director of so many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Road Runner animated shorts that even he has lost count. Jones has no trouble recalling the number of books he has produced: this is his first. The star is a highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without...
...missions in Viet Nam, who had been chafing as a test flyer for his younger brother; Yeager, Dick's constant companion, is a shy, petite former engineering-design draftsman who holds nine world flight records after just ten years at the controls. (She is no relation to Test Pilot Chuck Yeager, who went out of his way to belittle the mission in a quote to U.P.I.: "The Voyager is old technology. It's not a breakthrough.") Voyager began, as have so many fine notions, as a hurried sketch on a paper napkin. Five years ago the three were sitting...
...Every toy and tale throws a long shadow," says Film Animator Chuck Jones. "I could never have done some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons -- and kids couldn't have responded to them -- without a knowledge of knights and witches and giants. Every popular figure, from Daffy Duck to the Cabbage Patch Kids, has ancestors in the old country...
...freshmen spent three days last week in a Capitol Hill orientation session, Kennedy spokesman Chuck McDermott said yesterday from Washington...