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...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...
Wilson would not blame the Crimson's traditionally porous defense for the early Bowdoin lend, pointing to the Polar shooting average in the first half as the prime person...
Many educators question whether humans can be taught this way. But there is already ample evidence that in subjects that lend themselves easily to fragment learning, e.g., grammar, spelling, foreign languages, mathematics, automated teaching is far more efficient than the old-fashioned blackboard. New York's Collegiate School for boys tried teaching machines in math, found that 73 students completed in only two weeks an abstract-algebra course that usually requires two months. The Roanoke public schools used teaching machines on 34 eighth-graders-with no oral teaching and no homework-and in less than one semester...
...Often the cheers are loud, but then one notices a swarm of young boys yelling or adolescent girls swooning. It was a shred man who manufactured the buttons reading "If I were 21, I'd vote for Kennedy." Of course, many people whom the law defines as mature also lend their voices to the emotional outburst, as if Kennedy were a film star, not a candidate for solemn high office...
Thomas. The group agreed to lend Hughes the money he needed provided there was no change in TWA's management. In characteristic Howard Hughes fashion, he and Thomas had a falling out, and Thomas quit two days before the deal was closed. The banks backed away and Hughes tried unsuccessfully to find the money elsewhere...