Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime admirers of Hank Bauer were surprised to note that your artist, Boris Chaliapin, used a somewhat out-of-date glove in his illustration. The three-finger style glove was last used about 1959, when it gave way to what was popularly called "the six-finger" glove. Oddly enough, our Hank Bauer model of the 1950s was a three-finger glove...
Barry also went out of his way to allay fears that his itchy trigger finger might set off nuclear war. "A major concern of ours," he said, "has been the military security of this nation. Some distort this proper concern to make it appear that we are preoccupied with war. There is no greater political lie. We are preoccupied with peace. We seek a strong America because only a strong nation can keep the peace. I do not intend to be a wartime President...
...stately Mercedes. Furthermore, Germans like to play cop to their fellow drivers. Discipline can be instilled, for instance, by an "educational honk" of the horn, and if that is not enough, by a Deutscher Gruss, or German greeting, in which the forehead is tapped with the right index finger, suggesting mental derangement in the other fellow...
...Angeles museum glitters with flashing lights, which help attract 10,000 Southern California students each month to learn by personal discovery. When the visitor puts his finger on a generator and pushes a button, he transmits the electricity stored up in his body to a neon tube, which then glows. At an ingenious IBM exhibit called Mathematica, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, bulbs light up to demonstrate what happens when a number is squared or cubed. After a tour through a giant animated atom, students can test their newly acquired knowledge on a teaching machine...
...Snipped Fingers. The first known case, said Dr. McKusick at Bar Harbor, was born in 1860. Though the Amish average a couple of inches shorter than the general U.S. population, there is no mistaking the deformity. Ellis-van "Creveld dwarfs range in height from only 40 to 60 inches. They have six fingers on each hand, the extra one being on the outside of the hand beyond the little finger. Sometimes (but not consistently) there is a sixth toe on one foot or both. Although it is not conspicuous at birth, many dwarf babies have an abnormal heart with only...