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After conferring for a few minutes, we worked up the courage to approach a woman sitting with a baby stroller by the lake. "Wo ist Weggis?" we asked...
...case, the pre-med stereotype really does fit. So do the labels social wizard and musical prodigy. But no psychologist, neurologist, or any other "ist" can explain how to combine all these stereotypes into one generalization that describes the life of Madison Sample...
...call it the national pastime, if you do not count self- inspection. (A future without baseball?) Did I mention hibachis, Exercycles, capped teeth, diet drinks, sofa beds, Winnebagos, microwaves, VCRs, IBMs, electric pencil sharpeners, electric knives, electric chairs, Minute Rice, bullet trains, Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Psychotherap ist, automatic windows, automatic doors, wash 'n' wear, Shake 'n' Bake, heat 'n' serve? Did I tell you the one about the traveling salesman, or the minister, the rabbi and the priest? The humor of our times would baffle you to distraction. A contemporary comedian brings down the house by relating situations...
...today will be essential to direct a missile-killing system. Even before so- called fifth-generation computers are ready, the Innovative Science and Technology Office, part of the Star Wars effort, is attempting to leapfrog to sixth-generation computers powered by light beams rather than electricity. Such computers, says IST Physicist Dwight Duston, "will be much smaller, much lighter, faster and almost immune from natural and man-made radiation." Some of those features would make a sixth-generation computer valuable in commercial uses...
...stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself in 1885), he doomed "that singular anomaly, the striking railway-ist-I know he 'II not be missed, he never will be missed." Londoners, plagued by labor squabbles that shut down commuter trains, laughed wryly...