Word: duking
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...great deal is known about these bureaucrats whose background, psychology and views are crucial to the world's future. But some Sovietologists-notably Political Scientist Jerry Hough of Duke -have prepared profiles of the upcoming elite on the basis of education and other significant data. These show that the new leaders will be better schooled than the old rulers, some of whom, like Kirilenko, had no real college education. Others, like Brezhnev, attended the vocational colleges that were characteristic of the 1920s and 1930s. Since the younger men began their careers around the time of Stalin's death...
Easyriders is an up-front magazine. As the editor says in his introduction to an interview with David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, "Anyone who has read us for any period of time knows that we're up-front about everything and believe absolutely in freedom on the press. At times we present controversial articles, knowing full well we may catch some flack from someone, somewhere--and we welcome it. We firmly believe in presenting both sides of any issue, and so we will certainly print rebuttals to the following up-front interview...
...Harold," 50, is the son of a South Carolina millworker. With an M.A. in literature from Duke University, he headed north and took a job as a bank teller while working toward his New York teaching certificate. In 1963 he became an English teacher in a big New York City high school. Six years later, seeking a change, he spent a year at a suburban school, but was bored. "That's when I learned how much I identified with the deprived kids in Manhattan." Back in the city, Harold helped launch a special reading program. "We were all weary...
Three volunteers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., set a world record this spring when they spent 28 days in a pressure tank to simulate a dive 2,132ft. into the sea. To raise money for the American Heart Association, Ohio State University students played a 4,378-seat game of musical chairs last month and broke the old record of 3,728 chairs...
...wait until 1921, when she was 40 and he 49, for the Duke of Marlborough, a surly little man who hated "Yanks" but married two. His obsession was Blenheim Palace, and Gladys soon found she had married a house. As duchess, Gladys pruned roses, cultivated a rock garden full of snakes, and bred spaniels in the state rooms. Ennui soon turned to hatred. One night during a dinner party she placed a revolver beside her plate. Her startled partner asked her what she meant to do with it. "Oh! I don't know, I might just shoot Marlborough...