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...eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test is getting a face-lift. "This revision is long overdue," says Kent State Psychologist John Graham, one of four professors who have been working on the test for four years. "We psychologists have been less than responsible in letting it go so long...
Player G Ct Yds Long TD Brian O'Neil 1 2 26 17 0 Kent Lucas 1 1 17 17 0 Jim Morris 1 1 14 14 0 George Sorbara 1 1 12 12 0 Joe Pusateri 1 1 10 10 0 Ed Boyle 1 1 9 9 0 Passing Leaders...
Tisch had no real master plan in building his empire, no carefully crafted long-term strategy to consult. He just looked for good deals, an elusive goal for many corporate chiefs. In the late 1960s, Tisch started playing the takeover game. His first catch was Lorillard, maker of Kent and True cigarettes. In 1968 Loews acquired the company in a friendly deal, but soon after the merger was completed, Tisch, taking an active hand, forced out the company's chief executive. No sense in sitting back and watching an acquisition turn sour, he believed. Lorillard profits subsequently showed stronger growth...
...Trying something new, Sendak last week was at work on his first movie. He teamed up with Director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf) and Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet to film The Nutcracker, a production that Sendak designed three years ago at the request of Kent Stowell, the company's artistic director. The transition from page to stage to film, says Sendak, was radical because "being a writer and illustrator, I don't work in three-dimensional scale. There are no live people in books. Even in publishing there are few." The biggest adjustment came when...
...guards had slipped Jackson the gun, hoping that the incendiary black militant would be killed. Bingham, they said, fled to save his life. "To understand this case," declared Bingham's lawyer Gerald Schwartzbach, "you have to understand 1971 . . . We're talking about a time when students were murdered at Kent State and Jackson State...