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...oversized key to the city on the seat beside him, Hometown Boy Duke Ellington, 63, cruised in an air-conditioned black limousine down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, right on past No. 1600 where his father and uncle once were White House butlers. Before him strutted the ten-piece Eureka Brass Band from New Orleans, whanging out a version of When the Saints Go Marching In that was loud enough to halt Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in the middle of a briefing. The occasion was the First International Jazz Festival, a People-to-People program with the Duke serving...
...perhaps too hard on some of the popular representations of science, though properly scornful of the standard routine which "dramatizes science through the biography of a hero scientist: at the denouement, he is discovered in a lonely laboratory crying "Eureka" at a murky test tube held up to a bare light bulb." But misrepresentation is not confined to scientists. Stylized representations of all professions, generally grossly inaccurate, flood our media. Our T.V. cowboys bear no more resemblance to real post-Civil War cowboys than Perry Mason and Nicholas Cain bear to real lawyers, or Peter Gunn to a real private...
...California seacoast town of Eureka, friends knew Bernon F. Mitchell as an average kind of kid-not too much of an athlete, but fun at parties and an enthusiastic skindiver. Later, at Stanford University, he had a lot of trouble with languages, so he switched courses and became a statistician. Up north, in Ellensburg, Wash., William Martin was the same sort of fellow. He was a good chess player and a mean hand at the piano, and he made a hobby of hypnotism. At the University of Washington he worked hard at his studies, was a topnotch math and science...
Thinking back on their past behavior, NSA conceded that it was a bit odd. Martin, son of an Ellensburg, Wash. accountant, made a hobby of hypnotizing people. Mitchell, son of a Eureka, Calif. lawyer, was under psychiatric treatment...
...song. Eventually she was so good that she was barred from "open'' competitions. At 19 she quit school, went to Sacramento and got an $80-a-week job at a small watering place called the Mo-Mo Club. After that came places such as Elko, Nev. and Eureka. Kans. As she slimmed down to her present 145 Ibs., Ann began to get dates in Las Vegas and Hollywood, but she did not hit it big. She refused to sing rock 'n' roll ("The money isn't that important''); her best records (Like Nothin...