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Apparently the greatest accomplishment of the Restoration was the first England-grown pineapple, a feat absurdly celebrated by this book in a two page color illustration of the royal gardener presenting Charles II with the fruits of his endeavors...
...nightclub magician Uri Geller (TIME, March 14, 1973). Among other things, the report claimed that Geller correctly called the roll of a die inside a steel box eight out of ten times; on the other two rolls he declined to pick a number. The odds against his performing that feat by chance, Targ and Puthoff calculated, were about a million to one. Geller was also reported to have sketched remarkably accurate versions of drawings picked at random by researchers hidden in another room. Those claims, printed in Nature, did seem to make a case for extrasensory perception...
...result of his efforts, astronomers can now clearly "see" in radio frequencies objects that are billions of light-years*- away, a feat that the Royal Academy equated to seeing a postage stamp on the moon with an optical telescope. Using Ryle's techniques, radio astronomers are extending their investigations to the very edge of the observable universe. Their findings are bringing man closer to an understanding of how the universe began and how it is evolving...
...doubtful if Robinson can match that feat with his present players. But given his reputation, he may manage some surprises. Win or lose, he intends to remain a stubborn, combative athlete; he feels no urge to play the role of ball-park civil libertarian. "The only reason I'm the first black manager," he says, "is because I was born black...
...preciosity" while living in Paris as an exile. These books took such themes as a voyeur's cruel peep at blindness, a beheading, and the defenestration of a chess master. Vadim Vadimych emigrated to the U.S. and taught Russian literature at Quirn University. Transforming himself by an astounding feat of linguistic ability into a master of English, he began to turn out a second shelf of glittering novels, the most notorious of which, A Kingdom by the Sea, examined the perversion of a scoundrel carnally attracted to little girls...