Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this was a singular honor, but one which he no doubt deserved. His appearances had a quality somewhat different from those of other singers. The anticipation in the audience was like the anticipation of a crowd awaiting the appearance of the President. He was very good in person, if less athletic than many. He would fall on his knees. But he had a dignity about him, because of his recordings, that related to his mind and not to his physical presence. He disappointed audiences in Paris, which much preferred Sam and Dave. But he never disappointed his real audience...
...explain further, for the trade that I am involved in, even though it is the second oldest profession known to man, is not one with which the average person is familiar. Palmistry is one of several so-called psychic sciences which deal with man, his personality, and his future. Astrology, for example, is an ancient and widely acknowledged "science" which uses stars and different times of the year to foretell what is in store for the individual. Another common form of fortune-telling is cards, either the common variety or Tarot cards, which originated in Israel. Tea-leaves are read...
...identical, which means that every palm is unique. If the reader will look, for example, at both of his palms, he will undoubtedly notice at least some differences in the conformation of the lines. It is from these lines that I can tell a great deal about a person...
Died. Frazier Hunt, 82, who helped cast the stereotype of the dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote...
...country outside the Northeast; the Testing Service, in fact, spends about $500,000 a year on research to improve the exams. Although Negro students do less well on the S.A.T.s, College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should...