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...pointless to speculate too much where Ike and Tina are going, beyond their next album. It's safe to say that they won't fade away, however. With their eclecticism and firm grasp of so many styles, they will never be without an audience. They are too versatile to lose either the R and B connoisseurs or the Las Vegas crowd merely because youth digs them as well. And their recipe for live entertainment, corny or not, will always generate a lot of excitement. I mean, exuberance and Sex are not matters of trendy fashion, are they...
...basic difference between the two was summed up by a reporter for the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, a paper which, incidentally, supported Nixon in 1968. Yaffe, he said, is a candidate with "a facile grasp of a bag full of issues he intends to use all to her disadvantage." Yaffe, he said, "may be her toughest opponent." As a result of Yaffe's efforts, "it will be a lively and intelligent campaign based on issues...
...possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion, they probe mercilessly for his Swiss bank account number...
...merger agreement would have to address all these inequalities, and administrators who acknowledge the difficulties claim that a solution is nevertheless within their grasp. At this time however, it seems clear that merger talks, once scheduled to end by September 1970, are destined to drag on for months to come...
Over two years, Premack and his assistants trained Sarah in the use of verbs, sentence structure, questions and conceptions, the last being the cognitive ability to grasp not only the root meaning of the word-symbols but their application in totally unfamiliar contexts. Having taught her to associate the color red with apple and the color green with grape, says Premack, "we then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance...