Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...
Choosing discretion over valor, Farber and his paper finally decided to hand over the manuscript to Judge William Arnold, who is trying the Jascalevich case. Arnold accepted the book, commenting that it might make "interesting reading." Surprisingly, Jascalevich's attorney, Raymond Brown, initially objected to Farber's offer, saying that he is after the notes, not the book. But some wonder about his motives as well. It has been suggested that Brown does not really want to see Farber's notes, knowing that they are actually useless to his case. He just wants Farber to refuse...
...past few years, researchers have become increasingly skilled at opening dialogues with chimpanzees, perhaps man's closest kin in the animal world. The famed chimp Washoe, now in Oklahoma, has managed to learn more than 100 hand sign-language symbols since the mid-'60s. At Yerkes, a sprightly female named Lana was tutored to communicate with her keepers in a language called Yerkish-a system of geometric symbols (squares, circles, lines, etc.) that stand for English words. By punching out these symbols, or lexigrams, as they are called, on a computer-monitored console, which displayed them...
...Ingmar Bergman out of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater to interrogate him about his taxes. Last week, after a victory in the tax courts, Bergman was back directing in the same theater. Earlier, he had celebrated his 60th-birth-day party on the Baltic island of Faro. On hand were his eight children (by four wives plus Liv Ullmann), along with the four children of his fifth wife Ingrid. Bergman gave a smile of a summer night when Linn, his daughter by Ullmann, presented him with a crown of wildflowers...
...friend, Novelist George Mandel (The Wax Boom): "My vision of Mario then? He used to go to his brother's in a taxi to borrow money for his kids' shoes. My vision of Mario still is him leaving a building, putting a cigar in his mouth with one hand and holding up his other for a cab. Same vision, rich or poor...