Word: legendes
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Though Actress Judy Holliday specialized in playing dumb blondes, legend has it that she possessed a towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims...
...friends claimed he was just a wealthy real estate investor who was harassed by overzealous, even jealous white authorities. Police contended he was the biggest heroin dealer in New York City, maybe in the country. To blacks in his old Harlem neighborhood, Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 45, was a legend of defiance and success. What he had he flaunted, and he had a great deal: 300 custom-tailored suits, a string of glamourous women and powerful friends in show business and politics. He drove two Citroën-Maseratis and four Mercedes. Ghetto kids, said a black police detective, "think...
...Miraculous Journey of Mahomet with introduction and commentaries by Marie-Rose Séguy (Braziller; 158 pages; $40). Known in the Muslim world as the Mirâj Nâmeh, this legend describes the mystical visions of Muhammad as he ascended one night to the Seventh Heaven and the Throne of God. With the Angel Gabriel as his guide, the Prophet meets with Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses. He visits paradise, with its eternally blooming gardens, and hell, where sinners suffer endless agony at the hands of demons. The 15th century illuminations that accompany the text of this holy...
...amount of detail that the President demands before reaching an economic decision has already become Washington legend. Aides tell stories of Carter correcting the addition of tables in the Statistical Annex, or reviewing every figure on pages dealing with farm-price supports. But in his discussions with advisers, no overall presidential economic philosophy ever emerges. Says Lawrence Klein, Carter's chief economic adviser during the campaign: "His economics are totally non-doctrine. The President's agribusiness experience in Georgia was the most important factor in developing his economic thinking...
...worked his way up through the store-manager ranks, has earlier triumphs to his credit. As head of Sears' then small eastern division in the 1960s, he talked his superiors into a major expansion. Sears had traditionally resisted building stores in the East-largely, according to company legend, because the longtime chairman, General Robert E. Wood, once failed to get loans for Sears from several New York banks and angrily vowed to stay out of that market. The eastern expansion paid off handsomely: the area today ranks in the top two of Sears' five territories for sales...