Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your lord and master's ev'ry wish...
Nevertheless, the possibility that one-third to one-half of the Quad will be flooded before winter is out seems good. "Death and taxes are certain, and the skating rink is next," John W. Hastings, master of North House, said Sunday...
HOWARD ECKERSLEY, about 51, a University of Utah psychology graduate who became a Hughes favorite one day in the 1950s by filling in when the master's regular movie projectionist showed up drunk. Eckersley has seven children and is an energetic tennis player despite having suffered a broken back on Okinawa in the World War II Navy. In 1972 he was charged by Canadian authorities with stock fraud in connection with a mining venture. The case was never brought to trial, but Eckersley's standing in the Hughes empire declined...
That will not leave Laumer much profit. To hold down labor costs to $2,000 per car, he employs his son, two daughters, a son-in-law and a master mechanic. But he contracts out all upholstery and painting work for another $2,000, and reaches far afield for authentic parts. The spare-tire mount comes from Argentina, for instance, the speedometer from the U.S.S.R., a water pipe from South Africa; Laumer gets only the chassis and a few other parts in the U.S. All together, the parts cost more than $5,000 per car, though Laumer hopes...
...Mark Twain, Indian Summer with Mark Twain. " Mutatis mutandis, this year's Twain anthology is a collection of his tales and observations about animals, ranging from the familiar Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County to such oddities as a polemic against the inefficiency of ants. Twain is a master always worth rereading, and perhaps the chief justification for new anthologies is to remind us of lines like "A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman...