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...Millionaire Frank McMahon. Trainer Elliott Burch had no such fears. As if to prove Arts and Letters' stamina, he entered him in the $116,500 Metropolitan at Aqueduct a week before the Belmont. The horse won convincingly and thus, said Burch, went into the Belmont with a distinct "psychological advantage...
...corner of human interaction is a team of ethologists at work under Dr. Michael Chance in Birmingham, England. In a recent issue of the British journal New Scientist, two of them, Christopher Brannigan and Dr. David Humphries, report that the team has isolated and catalogued no fewer than 135 distinct gestures and expressions of face, head and body. This human semaphore system, they explain, is not only capable of expressing an extraordinary range of emotions but also operates at a lower-and sometimes different-level of consciousness than ordinary speech...
...feature pages of the CRIMSON have made it clear that there are two distinct sets of reasons for seizing, striking, occupying, acting--radicalism and romanticism. The two sets are easily identifiable: the first is associated with words like "demands," or "grievances" or "conscience," the second is associated with any words other than "reasons," with words which deny cause-and-effect. I use the word "reasons: only because I have no other, and that should reveal to you the type of person...
...drop charges against them in return for a fedayeen promise not to bring on Israeli retaliation, either by firing across the border or by launching large-scale raids from Lebanese territory. Lebanon has appealed also to its Moslem neighbors for a summit meeting of the Arab League, now a distinct possibility, since other Arab governments are as aware as the Lebanese of the growing political threat of the fedayeen...
...thus came as a distinct shock to most Americans when LIFE reported that Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, an appointee, longtime confidant and private legal retainer of Lyndon Johnson, had accepted a $20,000 fee from the family foundation of Stock Speculator Louis Wolfson, who was then under investigation and is now in jail. Fortas-who admitted that LIFE'S facts were essentially correct-had held the money for almost a year, returning it three months after Wolfson's indictment. Although Fortas had not broken any law, he had clearly been guilty of a gross indiscretion...