Word: paule
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...hire a member of the Communist Party, no matter what his qualifications (I say "his" because there was hardly any chance that Harvard might hire a woman, communist or otherwise). Each generation, it seems, has its own test of conscience. Why do the presidents of Harvard always fail? Robert Paul Wolff...
...wealthy businessman and amateur ventriloquist who collected dummies from 1916 until his death in 1972. In one room of the museum, scores of dummies sit on folding metal chairs. The effect, on anyone who came along in the high celebrity days of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney and Senor Wences too, is bizarre. Lacking animation, still, with their eyes wide as silver dollars and their goofy grins, they lend the room an air of the grotesque...
...York City's Central Park, the Rad Dogs, five Hispanic teens from the Bronx, enthrall crowds with their bike-borne acrobatics. "That was a Miami hop, followed by a pedal picker and a helicopter," explains Paul Perez, 16, after a display that bends the laws of physics. Marco Quezada, 16, tells the Rads' story: "We had nothing much to do until we saw a guy with a trick bike who did a few things, simple stuff, but we were real impressed. So we all started going out to get bikes of our own. That was two years...
Whether espousing church doctrine or schussing down a snowy slope, John Paul II has always enjoyed lofty perspectives. Last week the high-minded Pope was in his element during a 24-hour visit to the mountainous northern Italian region of Val d'Aosta. No one wanted to risk a papal stumble, of course. So he was helicoptered on a sightseeing tour of the area around Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak (elevation 15,771 ft.), and troops checked every possible loose rock at the places where he was to set down. The Pope nonetheless did his best...
First to spot the fossil forest was Paul Tudge, a helicopter pilot who has been ferrying Geological Survey scientists to and from remote sites on Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere for years. He had once seen McMillan's fossil forest, and on a flight to Axel Heiberg in July 1985, Tudge recalls, "I saw the same sort of stumps, but many, many of them." He later returned to the site, landed nearby, collected samples and brought them to Basinger, who immediately began planning this summer's expedition. Aided by a grant from the Geological Survey and accompanied by another fossil-forest...