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...Letters. Richard Nixon's handwriting is just terrible, and so was J.F.K.'s. The penmanship of most Americans is not much better. According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, many thousands of federal tax returns are held up each year because the IRS cannot make out the pigeon-track figures on the tax forms. Illegible handwriting, claims W.I.M.A., is responsible for annual U.S. business losses of more than $100 million in garbled records, billing mistakes and unreadable bookkeeping entries. W.I.M.A., whose members make pens, pencils and felt-tipped markers, has launched a campaign to battle the epidemic...
...aroused crowd was quickly subdued, however, when Mentum took a quick jaunt to the men's room and Brown's Mark Charest single-handed tied things with a goal which was as unexpected to the partisan Crimson followers as being served pigeon at the House of China...
...pigeon for Skinner, an ape for DeVore...
...Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling his r's in words like 'warble' and 'warp.' Since Jaques not only is a malcontent but also enjoys parading his melancholia, he carries a little notebook and pencil in which...
...development of supersonic passenger jets and the introduction of new drugs and are catching and surpassing the country in the areas of electronics and textiles. From corporate boardrooms to garret laboratories, there is a widespread concern that the U.S. genius for invention is going the way of the passenger pigeon...