Word: johnses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many New York peddlers are new immigrants: Lebanese, Puerto Ricans and Africans who readily translate savvy from bazaars back home to the streets of Manhattan. Their merchandise too reflects a worldly variety. For lunchtime crowds there are Vietnamese beancakes, falafel, shish kebab, natural-dried fruit, roasted chestnuts. Peddlers sell both...
Oh, really? God, I've forgotten that one...They cancelled the place that they [the Rolling Stones] were going to do it, so they had to get another place...I remember they had to fly the outdoor toilets by helicopter from the one place to the other. We looked out...
A husband in New York's Westchester County presented his startled family with a gift-wrapped sack of long johns from Maine's L.L. Bean, plus a chain saw so that the boys could provide wood for a warming fireplace to keep the Arabs at bay. The greatest...
Sharing the $15,000 prize were Dr. Hans Kosterlitz of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Pharmacologist John Hughes of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and Dr. Solomon Snyder of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University.
Mitten adds, "Anything that will lead people to become more involved in teaching is a good thing. Mechanisms are needed whereby excellence in teaching is considered in tenure appointments." Donald also notes the isolation of many undergraduates from faculty contact. "I worry about the invisible students in this community," he...