Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme: Philosophers' Reverie) on the chancery grounds in Bonn, Schmidt got a little help from a professional conjurer and presto! levitated a woman. Then the Chancellor jubilantly passed a hoop over her body to show that it was not supported by wires. Why mix politics and magic? Like the levitated body, explained Schmidt, "problems are suspended and have to be solved...
...ever spent on a TV series before-$15 million, nearly double the cost of Star Wars itself. Moreover, Tektronix, Inc., a computer firm, has contributed a real computerized control room, and John Dykstra, 31, who created the wizardry special effects for Star Wars, was commissioned to work the same magic for Galactica...
...basically the same sad club of a year ago, and rumors are that Blacman will hock his magic wand for a couple of blue-chip recruits. Sophomore Dick Clasby, namesake of Harvard's halfback star of the fifties, could...
...CORNELL: Everyone was waiting for Coach Bob Blackman to work that Ol' Blackman magic last year in his first season with the Big Red, but Cornell's problems need more than a little hocus-pocus to solve themselves...
...officials have tried, as usual, to prevent any exaggerated expectations of the outcome at Camp David. Said one: "There is no magic formula. On the basic questions, nothing has changed. There'll be no deus ex machina coming up with a great plan." In fact, even a modest success is far from assured. It will depend in large part on the stern and cantankerous figure of Menachem Begin?and on whether any mixture of pressure and persuasion can induce the onetime guerrilla fighter to lessen his intransigency and make at least some concessions for the sake of a settlement...