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...electron microscope is like the monkey wrench on the garage wall; what you do with it is the important thing." See MEDICINE, Prize Week...
Colorfully and tendentiously described by such angry hotshot reporters as Baltimore's H.L. Mencken-who called Bryan "a tin-pot pope" and lamented that Darrow might as well be "bawling [his eloquence] up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan"-the monkey trial made screamlines all over the U.S. and Europe. Bryan and Darrow put on a spectacular sideshow, bellowing like snake-oil salesmen, crassly subverting judge, jury and the rules of evidence as they addressed their elocution to the larger court of public opinion. "We have the purpose," Darrow thundered, "of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling...
...like such mammals as the dog and the monkey, which have brains built on the same plan as humans, even though they are much dumber. The octopus is not a mammal, or even a vertebrate. It is a mollusk, a sort of sophisticated clam. Its brain evolved independently-and the octopus in many ways is an independent thinker. Last week University of Cambridge Zoologist Martin J. Wells was preparing to publish a fascinating study on a far-out subject: the octopus and its intellect...
...dismaying dilemma: the Senate version, appropriating nearly twice the money ($1.8 billion) offered by the House, authorized special federal funds to raise teachers' salaries-a mouth-watering campaign plum. The House bill contained nothing for the teachers, but it did have Adam Clayton Powell's familiar monkey wrench: an amendment restricting the construction money to integrated schools. With the promise of a vote, if necessary, from Arkansas' James Trimble, Kennedy's adherents on the Rules Committee had the strength to get the House bill out, if Kennedy gave the word...
...traffic jams and struggled out to see the greatest show in sports. For a close-up view of the athletes, Romans lined an elevated highway that passed Olympic Village and peered at the girls through binoculars. Cracked California's 800-meter runner. Pat Daniels: "I feel like a monkey in a cage." One rubbernecker made it past frantic Italian guards at the gate of the men's quarters by simply stripping to his shorts and running...