Word: gail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leachim was created for Teacher Gail Freeman by her husband Michael after she complained repeatedly about the time she had to spend with her students on drill and review. A doctoral candidate and professor of management sciences at Bernard Baruch College, Michael spent 18 months and $ 1,000 to design, build and program Leachim (Michael spelled backward, more or less), a 5-ft. 5-in., 200-lb. humanoid with black plastic arms and legs. Although his legs are motorized, he is chained and bolted to a table for security. The robot's brain is a computer, made partly from...
Both Leachim's humor and his moments of testiness are deliberate. "He is geared to Gail's- understanding of the children's tolerance levels at this age and what should be expected of them," says Michael. The robot's ultimate gesture of impatience is one many teachers would envy: he just turns himself...
...playoffs, defense becomes decisive. Scoring is low and hard earned. The weak defensive players get burned. Two years ago in the NBA finals, the Lakers destroyed the Knicks 4 games to 1 by isolating Gail Goodrich on Earl Monroe. Monroe's weak knees slowed up his defense and Goodrich gobbled him up for better than 25 points a game...
...late to revive that show, which never laughed quite hard enough at itself, but Lorelei is a particularly tawdry retread. Jule Styne has added a few routine songs; and the book, originally by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, has been updated by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent. Lorelei has been touring the country for eleven months. Perhaps that is why not even the Art Deco sets - inappropriate for a 1920s story- look fresh. The book, which always had the flaw of seeming more heartless than its heroine, now seems just plain crass...
...raids climaxed a long game of cat-and-mouse played between police, the kidnapers, and young Getty's mother, former Actress Gail Harris. Mrs. Harris was at first wary of cooperating with the police out of fear of jeopardizing her son's life. When the police secretly tapped her telephone, they heard a man with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified...