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...were born in January or early February, you should count your astrological year as the year before you were born because the lunar calendar does not coincide exactly with the Western solar calendar. For example, if you were born in January, 1956, your sign is the ram, not the monkey...
...year when all the discussions about their revelation took place. One thing became very clear from that discussion: the so-called 1-1-2 plan, with freshmen living in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and juniors and seniors in the River Houses, had few supporters and had a monkey-wrench effect on the discussion. Most of the discussants spent so much of their time and energy trying to kill this plan that it diverted them from drawing up constructive recommendations. Now, totally blind to that history, the task force has sought to revive that option. The report labels...
...wheeling 15-ft.-tall Kong statues into 25 of the country's biggest movie houses. In Britain there are King Kong competitions. Among the prizes is a free trip to Hollywood for the humanoid who best answers the question: "When was the last time people made a monkey...
Retailers have been eying Kong's potential with .prehensile enthusiasm. It will soon be possible to drink King Kong cocktails made from grenadine, orange juice-and bourbon-from an ape-shaped Jim Beam bottle. For kids there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business...
...after an hour's debate, the 300 assembled anthropologists overwhelmingly defeated the resolution-partly because to many it was reminiscent of the church's denunciation of Galileo or William Jennings Bryan's attack on the theory of evolution at the Scopes "monkey" trial. Margaret Mead shuddered at the thought of anthropologists joining the far right in "book-burning" efforts in the schools. Said she: "We are supporting the people who attack everything we believe in! We are getting ourselves into an insane position." Concluded University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, a strong opponent of sociobiology who also...