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...Mathematics for the Million) Hogben, professor of medical statistics at Britain's University of Birmingham, Wonderful World is a fast-paced history of the subject from the days when people "thought of any quantity greater than three as a heap or pile'' to the age of Albert Einstein...
...lives of Manhattan's anonymous masses, and everywhere-lolling on the beaches, powdering their noses in the mirror of a subway gum machine or just striding, windblown, under the "L"-the proud, full-bosomed, round-rumped, bulging-calfed girls Marsh made his own. From Marsh's mountainous pile of sketchbooks, drawings, engravings, etchings and paintings. Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art has chosen 160 examples for its current Marsh retrospective show...
...sour grapevine calls him. "We have a peculiar national attitude toward money-making," he tells an acquaintance. "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system -but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel . . . ashamed of himself...
...bats navigate over long distances is not known, but their sonar apparatus (high-frequency sound-wave ranging) generally keeps them clear of even small obstacles like twigs or wires. There are few records of bat-crashes in instrument-flying weather, but two years ago bats began to pile into the Empire State. Terres thinks that the cluster of television antennae on the building may have something to do with it. The power of the antennae has increased recently and broadcasting has continued late into the night. This may be the time when the bats fly past, and in some...
...called His Exalted Highness, a taxfree privy purse of $1 million a year, plus a yearly $500,000 to run his menage and another half million partially to make up his loss of income from his sprawling estates taken over by India. Although the Nizam already has an estimated pile of roughly $500 million in cash, jewels and three palaces, the annual petty cash will come in handy to maintain his three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children and some 3,400 palace guards and flunkeys. Lately, however, the Nizam has been riled by repeated hotfoots from New Delhi, official hints...