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...fact, the 132 languages of the Indo-European family, among them most of the voices of Europe, flowered from the same ancestral roots. Their surface differences conceal a multitude of bonds, which, once recognized, can ease the monolingual traveler's way through the multilingual maze. This fascinating and infuriating book, by the author of the bestselling Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen, sets out to do just that. "Nowadays," writes Hogben, "neither school nor college courses within the English-speaking part of the world do much to divulge the many clues to word origin which...
Between the two parties, Richard Neustadt sits like a chief justice, and he seems well suited to the role. He chain smokes cigarettes or a belching pipe, and his words come out like an oracle's from behind a maze of smoke. But the oracle is indecisive at the moment. "You understand, I don't commit myself to anything for more than five minutes," he explains. "We're still gathering ideas...
...This was consistent with what was known when Loeb wrote the chapter in 1899. Months after he revised it in 1912, Robert Yerkes reported in the Journal of Animal Behavior an experiment that became famous: Yerkes trained a single earthworm over a period of months to learn a simple maze. Fleming's note at the end of the chapter mentions neither this nor more recent experiments in training planarians...
They usually move in groups of 30 to 40. Led by guides from one jungle "station" to the next, the North Vietnamese start their six-month trek down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a labyrinthine maze of many paths, which U.S. advisers prefer to call "a line of drift...
...buyers, negotiating back in Manhattan, are big men themselves. They are mostly onetime U.S. Defense Department officials who in 1958 bought out the New York-based Marine Transport Lines, which is bidding for the Niarchos fleet and is anxious to keep it out of foreign hands. Through a complicated maze of companies, they operate 61 ships under American and Liberian flags. Leading the group is H. (for Harris) Lee White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes...