Word: masters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying--probably in vain--to match the caliber of Houdini. One such artists is Ron Fable, a 35-year-old performer from Milwaukee, who works at fairs and public gatherings in the Midwest. Fable specializes in strait-jacket escapes, using a skin tight jacket that is particularly difficult to master. Like Houdini, he hangs from a crane or flagpole while making his escape...
Fatigued by his trip, Carter chatted with the Diehls, their son Ted, 41, and his family. After a nightcap-a glass of buttermilk-in the kitchen, the President retired to the Diehls' bright turquoise master bedroom. His hosts bunked in a guest room. Then at 6 a.m. Woody Diehl knocked on his guest's door. Said he: "Mr. President, there's something I forgot to tell you last night. The knobs on the shower are reversed. Hot's cold and cold...
...police immediately informed the House superintendant of the threat, but recommended that House staff not evacuate the students because the caller did not mention a specific time or location for the bomb explosion, Jana M. Kiely, associate master of the House, said yesterday...
Goyette has described the master plan for RSKU as one of the most comprehensive and beautiful designs for a university he has ever seen. But when the complex is completed, the Shah will no doubt station SAVAK agents in very classroom to monitor discussions, as he has in every Iranian classroom. No matter how educationally innovative and aesthetically pleasing the university turns out to be, Harvard can have very little to be proud...
...other half of the prize will be shared by two researchers who employed the new technique to solve a major puzzle in endocrinology. Scientists had learned by the 1960s that the body's master gland, the pituitary, was itself apparently controlled by the hypothalamus, a tiny neighboring area in the base of the brain. But how? Leading separate and often hotly competing teams, Polish-born Andrew Schally, 50, at Tulane University and the VA hospital in New Orleans, and French-born Roger Guillemin, 53, then at Baylor University and now at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., isolated...