Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, there was an unaccustomed air of casualness, an unfamiliar atmosphere of tranquillity. President Johnson went through the normal busy week-a state dinner for Norway's King Olav, a jet excursion to Illinois, the appointment of a new ambassador to the U.N. But something was missing, some factor had disappeared from the unique Johnsonian equation. Both the shock and euphoria that followed the President's March 31 abdication speech had disappeared, and the Johnson Administration was slowly, inexorably winding down toward its self-set demise on January...
Among 197 inmates at Carstairs State Hospital, they found no fewer than seven XYY men, or 3.5% (as well as one XXYY). This, they estimated, was 50 to 60 times the normal incidence. To check this estimate, the Edinburgh investigators examined 266 newborn boys and 209 adult men without finding a single XYY. In a random collection of 1,500 karyotypes, they found only...
...than the average (about 18). But among their siblings there was an unusually low incidence of criminality. And in the only case so far reported of an XYY with several children, the abnormality was not transmitted: an Oregon XYY has had six sons, but all have a normal XY pattern...
...effort to sustain a steady drive the entire game and avoid the usual "Harvard choke" in the final period, Coach Bruce Munro shifted his strategy and started three midfields instead of the normal...
...should confuse DeMille with art, but Samson and Delilah comes closest of all his films to fitting normal standards of taste. For once he departs from the archaic film-making conventions which mark his other work. Technically, The Ten Commandments is cruder than Birth of a Nation, but Samson and Delilah looks comparatively modern. DeMille's camera moves more than usual, and often beautifully. He stages Delilah's discovery of Samson's blindness with real cinematic imagination; the camera follows Samson turning the millstone as he passes by her, completely oblivious to her seductive presence. The color, while no better...