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...Jaw thrust forward, spoiling for a fight, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did not mince any words. "It is no good dreaming about U-turns," she shouted at the Labor M.P.s who had been demanding a radical reversal of her economic policies. "Far from demoralizing the country, we are doing what the country elected us to do, and this government will have the guts to see it through." The buoyant show of indomitability was occasioned last week by a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the second called by the opposition in five months. The outcome...
...near Piltdown, England, an amateur fossil hunter named Charles Dawson "found" the first of two skulls with a human-like cranium and an apelike jaw. The find was hailed as the missing link between man and ape; for years Piltdown man occupied a prominent place in paleontology. Finally in 1953 he was unmasked: the remains were nothing more than a fabrication of modern human and ape bones doctored to give them the look of antiquity...
Winston Churchill once observed that "jaw-jaw is better than...
...rare transformation takes place in this remarkable documentary film about the efforts of elderly parents to prepare a middleaged, retarded son for life without them. The first views of Philly, as 52-year-old Philip is called, show a stocky, dull-faced man with an unshaven jaw, thick lips and a gap in his mouth where several front teeth are missing. His speech-grunted single words, short sentences that do little better than repeat what has just been said to him -makes it clear that his intelligence is severely limited. The last look shows the same coarse face, behind which...
Instead of a friendly international foray, the four-game series was marked by the Cubans' determination to approximate Saturday night wrestling matches. This was the same Cuban team which broke Kentucky All-American Kyle Macy's jaw in the 1979 Pan-American games...