Word: lana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to witnesses questioned by the FBI, cocaine was available at parties the night before and the evening after the fund raiser. TIME has learned that among the witnesses is Lana Rawls, ex-wife of Soul Singer Lou Rawls. She told the FBI that on Oct. 21, Jordan, Caddell, Kraft, Golden and several others dined at Sergio's Restaurant, a Beverly Hills supper club that has since closed. After dinner, according to Lana Rawls, they returned to the Century Plaza, where cocaine was made available to them. Her attorneys have told the Government that, if granted immunity from prosecution...
...researchers have become increasingly skilled at opening dialogues with chimpanzees, perhaps man's closest kin in the animal world. The famed chimp Washoe, now in Oklahoma, has managed to learn more than 100 hand sign-language symbols since the mid-'60s. At Yerkes, a sprightly female named Lana was tutored to communicate with her keepers in a language called Yerkish-a system of geometric symbols (squares, circles, lines, etc.) that stand for English words. By punching out these symbols, or lexigrams, as they are called, on a computer-monitored console, which displayed them on an overhead screen, Lana...
...Like Lana, Sherman and Austin first had to be introduced to Yerkish. Encouraged by praise and rewards of food, they soon learned the lexigrams for different foods and could identify foods by hitting the right buttons on their console. But could they be taught to exchange such information as well...
...room some more primatologists had entered, and my party joined them. I didn't, because I wanted to see more of the baby chimps in their nursery. After a bit I started back toward the Teletype and paused for a last glimpse of Lana, who seemed to be amusing herself watching slides. If her eyes slewed to the side to take me in, and I think they must have, I didn't notice. All I saw was that Lana had begun some rather strange behavior, shifting from one foot to the other. It should have warned...
David journeys to Paris, becomes a chef, then enjoys a brief career as door-to-door salesman before pushing on to America. In the New World he goes to Hollywood to survey the box-office appeal of leading stars. He boosts the career of Lana Turner; others are branded "Box Office Poison" and quickly fade from the screen. War breaks out, and David serves England as aide to Spymaster William Stephenson...