Word: duking
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...Search. But some personalities are evidently too tantalizing to be resisted. Abrahamsen's book follows others on the former President: M.I.T. Historian Bruce Mazlish's In Search of Nixon and Duke Political Scientist James David Barber's The Presidential Character. Abrahamsen, 73, who was born in Norway and immigrated to the U.S. in 1940, is an acknowledged expert on criminal behavior. He has also written two other psychobiographies, on a turn-of-the-century Viennese anti-Semite and on Lee Harvey Oswald. In preparing his Nixonalysis, Abrahamsen interviewed dozens of people, including several Nixon relatives...
Nixon vs. Nixon has won praise, particularly from those involved in similar work. It is "a good, sound portrait," says Lloyd deMause, editor of the four-year-old Journal of Psychohistory. Duke's Barber thinks that Abrahamsen has shown "how far psychoanalytic interpretations can help in understanding" Nixon...
...producer of saccharin, whose output accounts for 65% of the 8 million lbs. consumed yearly by Americans. Researchers pointed to the enormous quantities of saccharin fed the test rats-equivalent to consumption by a human of some 800 cans of diet soda each day over a lifetime. Said Duke University Biochemist Henry Kamin: "The dosages are so large that the result means nothing." In Albany, N.Y., Dr. Frederick Coulston revealed that his tests on monkeys-much closer to humans than are rats-revealed no harmful effects. Said he: "We gave saccharin to rhesus monkeys over 6½ years-relatively high...
Most students did not take the sudden whitening of the scenery quite as positively. Mike J. Wolf '78, a Florida native, said yesterday, "I hate the snow. I want to transfer to Gainesville or Duke or anywhere in the South to get away from this horrible weather and this crummy school...
...bands--an era that finally ended only with the rise of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. The public followed the big bands the way only baseball had been followed before. The bandleaders were among the first superstars in popular music. Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller--the names ring down the decades like the names of ancient dieties...