Word: octopus
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...immortalized such citizens as Angie the Ox, the Lemon Drop Kid and Meyer Marmalade, he had largely consulted his own imagination. But last week, when Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee opened hearings in Washington on the fight racket, the characters who took the stand to describe the octopus grip of the underworld on U.S. boxing were pure Runyon-but Runyon without romance...
...faces exactly this choice now; only one of its proposed spring shows was accepted by the Loeb Student-Faculty Advisory Committee. Unless the club's members are resigned either to accept the dictates of the committee or to strive for a Harvard dramatic octopus, they should present their second play outside the Loeb. After all, plays have been given in the Fogg Museum courtyard...
...years following that plea by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority became the swirling center of a great national controversy. Castigated by its enemies as a socialistic octopus, defended by its friends as an amiable and beneficent giant, the TVA wielded the power of government to tame the floods of the Tennessee River and revitalize its vast and poverty-stricken valley, stretching over 80,000 square miles into seven states. This week the TVA, now accepted as a permanent part of the U.S. scene by friend and foe alike, showed the initiative of a private enterprise...
...WALLIE CRISWELL, 50, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, the world's biggest,* with 12,000 members. A skilled evangelist who began preaching at 17, practices closed Communion and opposes dancing, Criswell is strongly anti-Kennedy, calls Catholicism a "political system that, like an octopus, covers the entire world and threatens our basic freedoms." He also condemns integration: "We'll all stand together in judgment before the Lord, but I think we can worship better our separate ways...
...Picture. When an octopus is blinded by having its optic nerves cut, it still has the delicate touch organs in its eight arms, but it cannot distinguish the shape or size of an object that it touches. All that it can feel is local roughness. The human brain gathers reports from many touch sensors, puts them together and builds up a picture of the object touched. The octopus brain cannot do this, even when several arms are touching the same object. Apparently its central intelligence does not even know clearly where its arms are. In other words, while the octopus...