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Primary Instinct. One other conclusion of the Munich group is that children prefer ceilings less than 7 ft. high. "It's almost a primary instinct," explains Ertel. "They want to explore their environment through touching. In the kindergarten experiment, the first thing the children did every morning was pile up the blocks so that they could climb up and reach the ceiling...
Butterfield also testified that as the pile of tapes began to grow, he urged the White House to set up a crew of stenographers to transcribe the material, but this was never done. Since the tapes were supposedly made for "historical purposes," the President apparently hopes to leave that mountainous job to a still to be created Nixon library, which will have all the time in the world to sort out the raw materials of the Nixon...
...that last season Walker was determined to stay out of trouble, to make that last season at Nether Providence his best. As in seasons past, players from all-white opponent teams muttered to him in pile-ups, "Like them licks, nigger." But in the fall of 1970, Walker only laughed and said, "Look at the scoreboard, mo' fo'." We were behind only once that entire season, and then by only two points for less than two minutes, so his response flowed freely. In the fourth game of the season, it was I, ordinarily the team's voice of reason, that...
...pile up supplies and bring down prices over the longer term, the Administration will remove, for the first time since the Korean War, all production controls on such basic crops as wheat, cotton and livestock feeds...
South Koreans had scant cause to rejoice. Three years of war had left more than 500,000 Southerners dead and millions without homes; more than $3 billion in damage had been inflicted on the South, and its capital, Seoul, had changed hands four times, leaving it a jumbled pile of rubble. This week, 20 years after the signing of the armistice, South Koreans had many things to celebrate. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, on a three-day visit to Seoul last week, put his finger on it when he told his hosts that "the accomplishments you have achieved...