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...minor but nonetheless extant controversy: How should course instructors be listed in the course catalog? At the moment they're listed under their courses as Professor X or Assistant Professor Y, but the Faculty Council felt last spring that perhaps the listings should be more egalitarian. So the council decided to dispense with titles and use Mr. X or Ms. Y instead, in order to do away with distinctions of rank...
...extraordinarily peaceable harmony with nature. They find food and avoid most dangers easily, have leisure, know rapture. Their history goes back 50 million years (v. 5 million for man) to the time the first cetaceans abandoned the land and took to the waters. Of the 87 species still extant, the biggest is the blue whale, whose tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant. Most highly developed is Orcinus orca, the "killer whale," which may be the only higher animal on earth that knows no fear. Then there is the humpback whale, renowned for its intricate but remarkably precise "songs...
With a few breaks, the Crimson stand an excellent chance of knocking off Cincinnati. But without the services of the tree-like Banks, Sander's quintet will have to do what the "Belle of Louisville" does to Cincinnati's "Delta Queen" each Spring in America's only extant steamboat race--cut corners on the bigger boat...
...make instant anagrams out of any name that was mentioned ("Alec Guinness" became "genuine class"). Along with French and German, he acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack...
...pages of such periodicals a pageant of figures appear, anonyms to the general public, but legends to the expanding magicians' fraternity: Derek Dingle, an air-conditioning engineer whom most magicians consider the greatest card manipulator extant; Percy Diaconis, a Harvard Ph.D. in statistics and inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards...