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...tried rational tactics, I tried emotional ones--nothing worked. I told her it was almost Christmas time. She didn't listen. She was wearing the plastic Santa Claus head with the pull-jerk red light nose that she wore every day from December first until vacation. It mocked me as I pleaded with her to change her mind, or at least change my grade. But she was adamant. So was I. Finally it was a battle between me, with the guidance office on my side, and Miss Davis, with God on hers. The outcome: she changed my grade with merciless...
...watched the screen on Saturday you can understand why UCLA's Walton smiles so much. Not only did the Bruins rout North Carolina State the red-headed giant's price tag appreciated with every minute of prime-time played. The professional basketball leagues will pay through the nose for Walton. Any pain Walton goes through now playing on bad kness will be rewarded by a generous financial deal come next year...
...Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed by the body to combat the herpes Type 2 virus* which often causes sores in the genital area, are found more frequently in women with cervical cancer than in those who are free of the disease...
...antennas, waggle from their cabs, picking up signals about 15 miles away. In lieu of call numbers, truckers prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with...
...interest, which she carries to the point of obsession, is horses. "You ride horses, you talk horses, you think horses," Prince Philip reportedly once told her. "You may end up looking like a horse." Kinder commentators say that she has her ancestors' "Hanoverian features," meaning that her nose is some what larger than average and her chin somewhat smaller. If the couple's marriage was not made in heaven, it was, by their standards, made in the next best place- the stable. They met in 1968 at a dinner party for Britain's Olympic competitors; Mark...