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Suffering Catfish Americans may feel sentimental about animals, but compared to the mother country, the U.S. is downright callous. Last week London's Hay ward Gallery opened an exhibition of eleven California artists' work-sculptures, constructions, video tapes. There were also six 20-ft.-long water tanks that La Jolla Artist Newton Harrison called Portable Fish Farm...
Unlike Burris, the numerous and articulate anti-Skinnerians remain skeptical, if not downright hostile toward him and his followers. Yet they feel that his long, patient campaign against freedom must be studied and understood. Their criticism is directed not at Skinner the scientific technician (the soundness of his laboratory work is seldom questioned) but at Skinner the philosopher and political thinker; his proposal for a controlled society, they say, is both unworkable and evil...
...also led the league in strikeouts (240), completed games (19), shutouts (8) and earned-run average (1.62). For a veteran moundsman, such marks would be merely amazing. For a fledgling in his first full season in the big leagues, it is, as Oakland Pitching Coach Bill Posedel says, downright "scary...
...downright humiliating. There was poor old Jimmy Ellis training for the fight of his life and all that anyone talked about was who Muhammad Ali would meet after he polished off Jimmy What's-His-Name. Trouble was, Ellis was Ali's longtime friend and former sparring partner. They even had the same trainer. Thus the prospect of Ali meeting someone he had already sparred with for 1,000 rounds or so was about as exciting as the late, late, late show. Ellis made menacing noises and Ali tried to work up his customary public fury over...
...Quack. Restaurants were good, and food prices downright cheap, even in the best ones. Western dishes were scarce. "We ate Western food only at breakfast," reports Newsday Publisher William Attwood. "It was pretty bad." Roderick found his Chinese meals equaling or surpassing the best of Tokyo's fine Chinese restaurants. "Everything was just delicious," he recalls, "particularly a Peking duck dinner of six or seven courses at only $2.50 per person." Henry Kissinger also enjoyed a Peking duck banquet during his visit last month. "We ate everything but the quack," reported a Kissinger aide. So good was the food...