Word: isn
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Singer Bobbie Gentry, 23, may know the answer, but she isn't telling. Instead, the slim Mississippi farm girl is basking in the news that her Ode to Billie Joe, which she cut for Capitol Records on July 10, has passed the million-sales mark, and that her first LP album (including Billie Joe and eight other songs written and sung by her) has an initial run of 500,000 copies...
University of Michigan last week: "We have been caught not only with our pants down, but with our pants off-there isn't even a national committee on Viet Nam studies...
...that clear to everybody? Of course it isn't, except to fairly serious sailors. What it is, approximately, is Skipper Bus Mosbacher's explanation of what his Intrepid crew does when rounding a buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language uttered by experts in their field-whether it be computers (see U.S. BUSINESS) or toxicology (see MEDICINE) or catechetics (see RELIGION) or sailing-and turning it into a story that a non-expert can understand is a facet of our job that we consider of major importance. Bridging that language gap between specialist...
Find the Heel. By Bus Mosbacher's standards, that match was a mild, gentlemanly affair. Not that Bus isn't a gentleman-which he most certainly is, on land at least. He is an attentive hus band, a deeply affectionate father (he usually greets his three boys, who range in age from eleven to 15 with a kiss on the cheek), a loyal friend, a delightful conversationalist. He is the kind of fellow who might take a milkshake instead of a martini, never smokes a cigarette, and always squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom. The worst anybody...
...make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly-all the more galling when it really isn't our fault but just bad luck...