Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing her arithmetic homework) were played at tedious length. But Montgomery, who is also the White House television adviser, was consoled for his failure when he learned that President Eisenhower's TV speech explaining his veto of the farm bill got a large portion of the audience that tuned out the Einstein program...
...documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...
...Homework Upstairs. Today, after 25 years in Milan, Family Doctor DeTar runs a one-man show at a pace that would weaken many a younger physician. After wolfing his breakfast, he slips by nine into his elaborate ground-floor office (laboratory, three examination rooms, four secretaries) to welcome the first of the day's 35-odd office patients. After four or five house calls in his 1950 Oldsmobile sedan, DeTar often skips lunch (to his wife's despair), sees more office callers until 7:30. After a quiet, 45-minute dinner with his wife, he climbs the stairs...
Actually, few ordinary drivers can hope to equal the Mobilgas marks. Not only are the cars tuned for a peak performance, but the drivers make test runs of the course, checking and timing for red lights, bad grades, etc. Young Alsbury did his preliminary homework so well that in the whole race, studded with 53 traffic lights, he hit not a single one that...
...Labs, Much Homework...