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...efficiency by giving land stations their already known positions. So far, it has not told any ships where they are on the ocean, but only because no ship at sea has the proper receiving equipment. Probably the first to get such equipment will be the nuclear submarines. When they poke a whip antenna above the surface to listen to Transit they will be able to tell where they are within 600 ft. A navigator who shoots the sun or stars with a sextant in good weather does an excellent job if he gets a fix that is accurate within...
...more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like." But at home in Dallas or Houston, today's Texas tycoon is more apt to wear a Brooks Brothers suit than Texas boots; though his poke may have started in oil (and gained by the 27½% depletion allowance), much of it now comes from electronics, real estate, insurance or shipping. And for the new Texan, Texas is no longer big enough. Ranging across the nation like eager bird dogs, Texas businessmen are supplying capital, entrepreneurial...
...have been pocked heavily by other satirists, and one blackout aimed at the telephone company, a monolith that fascinates all of the new comics, uses a punch line similar to one of Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising or the CIA. Feiffer's models are the very sort of people who think it is fashionable (the in word is "in") to dig Feiffer, and often the audience is laughing uncomfortably at itself...
...story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke Adam into life with their swords. Magnificently danced by Roderick Drew in jazz-flavored classical ballet movements. Adam, according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden...
...years between these springs, a good deal was happening to the University. Inspired by (among a plethora of influential supporting ideas) Bundy's entreaty, "We must attract, entice, drive, pull, or poke leading men and women students into the graduate schools," the Faculty passed programs for a five-year Bachelor of Science and a six-year Bachelor of Architecture...