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Hugh Sidey may have been joking when he suggested Walter Cronkite as a possible President [March 31], but it's no joke. Either party could nominate Cronkite and win. He knows more about national and international problems than any other two candidates put together, and, as a duty, I...
Dean searched my face to see whether I was joking. I wasn't and he could see that. "Well, uh," he stammered, "I don't think we've gotten there yet, Gordon."
Kennedy, who had originally not planned to campaign in Wisconsin at all, decided to give it a last-minute try and flew in two days before the polls opened. Once on the scene, he put on a whirlwind dawn-to-dusk drive. Joking, laughing and punching at the air like...
Underneath the dignified and suited exterior, however, lurks a man who some say has a quick sense of humor. Bok does not enjoy standing on a platform of dignity, says Weinreb. "We have a very good time together because we can clown around," he adds. And Bok is well known...
Part of the talking-ape lore may come from the subjectivity of researchers. The Sebeoks note that when Koko is asked to give the sign for drink and makes the proper gesture but touches her ear instead of her mouth, Psychologist Patterson assumes not that the gorilla has made a...